Condolences... for your people? Lame, I know. I don't know what to say to the death of one person, much less 6 million.
There are few things as inane as trying to put a positive "spin" on unimaginable human suffering. Even the relentless American spirit of positivity only goes so far.
Still, I can try and put a positive spin even on Mengele being a sick bastard, since it saved the Ovitzes if not quite in the dramatic way some of them remembered. (But it's a heck of a story!) The unreliability of memory and witness testimony is something that comes up a lot in law and law enforcement, too, and it's fascinating how sometimes different people don't even seem to live in the same universe. AU ain't just for fanfic.
To me the real story of that piece is the tremendous way mainstream Israelis came out to support the players against the racists. It's a particularly comic and poignant moment when the 14-year-old handing out fliers mutters how he's been fighting racism for forty, sixty years. And the image of the racists quitting the game in protest after Sadayev scores a goal remains, to me, a brilliant statement of triumph. Yeah, you go be spoilsports (literally), the rest of us will enjoy the game. :D
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Date: 2013-04-09 08:39 pm (UTC)There are few things as inane as trying to put a positive "spin" on unimaginable human suffering. Even the relentless American spirit of positivity only goes so far.
Still, I can try and put a positive spin even on Mengele being a sick bastard, since it saved the Ovitzes if not quite in the dramatic way some of them remembered. (But it's a heck of a story!) The unreliability of memory and witness testimony is something that comes up a lot in law and law enforcement, too, and it's fascinating how sometimes different people don't even seem to live in the same universe. AU ain't just for fanfic.
To me the real story of that piece is the tremendous way mainstream Israelis came out to support the players against the racists. It's a particularly comic and poignant moment when the 14-year-old handing out fliers mutters how he's been fighting racism for forty, sixty years. And the image of the racists quitting the game in protest after Sadayev scores a goal remains, to me, a brilliant statement of triumph. Yeah, you go be spoilsports (literally), the rest of us will enjoy the game. :D