I am not going to dwell on the past and harbor ill feelings towards what happened. It's been nearly 70 years. It isn't a matter of not respecting the dead. We didn't name the game "Auschwitz", we named it after a night in history when something very horrible "began", but the holocaust does not singularly come down to that one night.

Have you ever heard of the saying, "Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it? The only way we thick-headed flawed human beings learn from horrors like this is to remember, so that it may never happen again. Saying "It's been 70 years," like we, as the human race, should be over it by now, you big babies, is wow, I don't know how to say this nicely, unbelievably callous.

Gosh, it's only been 60 or so years since Stalin murdered or exiled those who disagreed with him, or that slavery occurred is okay because we've stopped now, or wow, we shouldn't be so upset over Indian or Chinese parents aborting their girl babies, or African boys fighting in wars and raping young girls is acceptable because hey, it's just their way!

You are, in effect, saying that grief and rage and disgust over an atrocity has a time-limit. That it's free game for use after almost everybody directly involved is dead or something.

And being upset or disgusted at the mods choice does not mean that we are "dwelling" on the past. It means we're still disgusted by the atrocity! It means that we are compassionate enough and ethical enough to respect that Kristalnacht is not something that should be used in fun, no matter how apt the parallels are.

It is like making jokes about rape. Would you tell a rape victim that because a certain amount of time has passed, that her memories can be co-opted? That it's okay to use her experience as an example because it fits your story and if she's upset, she's just dwelling on the past and should get over herself?

Y'all have to realize; this is personal, very personal to a lot of people.

It doesn't lessen the impact of the choice that Kristalnacht was a beginning. How on earth does that make it less painful to those who lost family members? How does it make it less painful to those whose family members were the ones breaking the glass? How does that make it less horrifying that one group of human beings did it to another?

It's still a word that represents great pain and suffering, and it was chosen for entertainment purposes. That "enough" people say it's okay doesn't make it right. "Enough" people saying it's okay to a bad idea is how the whole thing happened in the first place! That the moderators felt the need to devote a great deal of space to explain and justify their choice does not make it acceptable.

People standing up to say "you're wrong," isn't harassment, it's a plea to correct something that is offensive to many many people, jew and gentile and pagan and athiest alike.