Well, I've followed this extroardinary post for some time and cannot remain silent any longer.
It is clear that when cetain parts of history are discussed then no rationale will prevail which is a pity, but this is ludicrous!
A boat is a boat! A simple mechanical object. Who it belongs to, or belonged to, or who once used it is irrelevant, it is just a collection of steel and wood. It is a blameless inanimate object, and suggestions that it should be burned on acount of it's inadvertent part in history is as outrageous as suggesting that it's present or future owners are card-carrying members of the Nazi party. This is the "politics" (if I may so misuse the term) of hysteria, and utterly inappropriate to the subject in question.
Whether or not you chose to include Hermann Goering (not nasi goring, that is an Indonesian pork snack...) as one of the princilal evils of Nazism his yacht is nothing whatsoever to do with the argument, and those that demand it's destruction on account of it's owner's past are clearly not altogether on the plot.
If we are to burn all assets of past dictators we should;
a); Eradicate Paris and Berlin
b); Eradicate Rome
c); Eradicate N korea
d); Burn down the RAF museum at Hendon (Luftwaffe
history there)
e): Go to Duxford and burn Black Six
Or, perhaps, wake up, come into the 21st century and recognise that there is such a thing as history and that it is a crime to eradicate it on short-term PC cultural whims.
Wake up, people, this is a boat with a connection to history. How dare anyone imagine they have the right to eradicate such a historical exhibit on the basis of an historical offence, no matter how remotely involved?
Follow on this line of "reasoning" and we'll be demanding the destruction of all the ex Soviet Squre Riggers won't we?
Well, we will , won't we??? Yes, burn the Bolshevik [--word removed--]!
After all, Stalin butchered more than Hitler, didn't he?
So!!!
Let's get a sense of proportion here when we demand the destruction of as part of history!
Neither destroying history nor a corrosive hate across the generations is a constructive theme in a civilised society.
Burning books, history, people or boats is a suer sign that the bad guys have won.
Think about it!
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