“There is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.”
— Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (via philosophybits)
A survivor drags a former concentration camp guard by the hair while American troops look on at the newly liberated Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, April 1945.
Why do we never see these photos, only photos of helpless starving people? Why are Jews only depicted as helpless and sniveling? Why is despair the only Jewish emotion that gets shown, not anger or strength or determination or joy?
I want everyone to see this.
It helps define a stereotype of a people so weak and cowardly they do not deserve to be saved. When you show them standing and especially attacking guards, you have more sympathy for them, because they show they CAN stand up for themselves.
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Pandemonic was a thrash metal band formed in Upplands Väsby, Sweden. They are the earliest example of the “werewolf metal”
trend later adopted by more modern bands such as Powerwolf, GrimWolf, and Canis Lupus, describing themselves often as “werewolf
worshipping thrash metal.”
The band itself cited many big name thrash metal musical influences such as Testament, Exodus, King Diamond, and Slayer.
Many reviewers and interviewers noted in particular the similarities between Pandemonic and Slayer, as vocalist Micke Ullenius
frequently employed high-pitched screams in the vein of Slayer frontman Tom Araya. The band has mentioned that, while the
screams began as a joke, they were later seriously incorporated into the music because “people seemed to like them.”
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