Anyone will try to send their message across on a college campus, and that is especially true from what I have seen this week at North Carolina State University. As I walk across the Brickyard, a place where I have to pass to attend classes, I see a blown up, in my face, image of a Jew from the Holocaust being hung to his death. As I walked past this offending visual, a rush of emotions hung over me. All the history of the Holocaust, the pain, the struggles of what my people have gone through fled through my mind. A college campus is the last place I would expect to be reminded of the largest mass genocide in history, one that I have a culture connection to, one that I say a prayer for, one that almost led to a mass extinction to my people. This image is used to compare the issue of abortion as a present mass genocide. The Jewish people in the Holocaust did not have a choice of what led to their murders. With abortion, there is a choice. No one is putting gun to the mother’s head, making the mother choose. In that sense, it is obscene to even try to compare abortion to the Holocaust. I understand there is free speech, but I believe in a moral line. To see people with their abortion stickers in front of this image from the Holocaust, smiling and thinking what they are preaching is good for society, for a young college campus, is besides me. Abortion is not the same as the Holocaust. No matter what your opinion is of this social issue. Understand that using an event known to most people in this world does not do it justice. You are labeling the Holocaust of an event that had the power to change by saying, “yes” or “no.” We have created museums, documentaries, historical sites for the Holocaust because it is a genocide, the issue of abortion lies within one person, and it should stay that way.
Letter to the Editor: Abortion protests
Zachary Goldberger, sophomore studying history
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Nov 13, 2015
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