No, I'm not "awfully picky". Not downplaying the actions of Nazi collaborators is literally bare minimum decency-- or at least it should be.
A new generation which doesn't keep in mind the evil of the past is likely to repeat such evil.
Actually the rhetoric(-al question) of "Why don't people concern themselves with the present?" is the most favoured ploy of both old and new Nazis thruout Europe.
It is simply a variation of "a line needs to be drawn under history, we can't be confronted with this any longer". Invariably to be followed by denial of said history altogether.
The slowly fading old Nazis used this to avoid their (at least moral) responsibility and instilled it into the more receptive among following generation(s), so that a disgraced ideology might resurface and be maintained for future use and purpose.
The father did it, the daughter is doing it and today's followers of equally despicable mindset happily grab the convenient "free card" that frees from reflection and contemplation, but - most importantly - from any responsibility towards avoiding repetition.
Consequently (and thus not surprisingly) finding the next step towards expression of outright anti-semitism conveniently easy.
That an account on here describing the distaste over an anti-semite making second place in the first election round while all that coincides with the (European) day of remembrance for the holocaust victims (and describing how French Jews feel about that) is thus met with the comment of "**** happens" gives no cause for amazement.
It just confirms Reuven Riflin's assessment (Israeli President) of "a growing phenomenon in Europe of renunciation of national responsibility in the name of alleged victimhood being a new, more destructive and dangerous kind of Holocaust denial than previously witnessed."
Obviously extending beyond Europe when it suits personal political agenda in the pursuit of which sensitivity (if at all ever possessed) is trashed.
That such developments have certain French at least contemplating to leave the country (should it fall to the advocates of this despicable ideology), is not surprising.
Not to mention those that already have been leaving for years and not just to escape taxes.
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