naturalplastic wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
There were more people from more demographics who were murdered during the Holocaust.
Yes.
Even within the "same genocide" folks emphasize some parts over others.
They stop at the six millon Jews, and dont go on to list...political prisoners, Gypsies (Roma), the handicapped, Soviet POWs, etc etc killed in the same Nazi Holocaust which add up to atleast another five million on top of the Six million Jews. .
At times it's easy to feel cynical about that outcome.
The holocaust doesn't seem to have made an entire civilization reflect upon how they view the Romani or queers or the handicapped, left-wingers, labour activists, etc; anti-communism made it easier for people outside of the Soviet Union to forget that Germany fought a war of extermination in the east (unlike the west).
That said, all that reflection doesn't seem to have reduced antisemitism in the west, so much as made people adopt code words and plausible deniability tactics. At times I wonder if the primary motive for supporting Israel without question is an example of dishonest/guilty virtue signalling.
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there’s no both sidesing a genocide, either you're against it or you're condoning it
戦争ではなく戦争と戦う
09 Jan 2024, 11:06 pm
