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So once again a group that has been discriminated against in the past is happy to indulge in the same behavior when given the chance.
It's one of the most painful lessons that anyone could learn. I learned it from the fists of boys at Armenian summer camp when they beat me for not looking "Armenian" enough - this from children whose grandparents were slaughtered wholesale for their ethnicity. It's a lesson I never forgot.
I saw it again when the Israeli government and many Israeli scholars cooperated with the Turkish government's denial of the Armenian genocide. "Never again" is fine except when it happens to someone else or is diplomatically inconvenient, I guess.
Time and again our species has shown that we will commit the same atrocities on others that we, ourselves have suffered and deplored in our most holy tones. Could hypocrisy be hard-wired into the human genetic code?
I hope not. But history offers few hopeful signs.
