Someone whose job it is to faciliate remembering a genocide calls a group of people “fundamentally evil”. Must have not ever walked into the museum.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    22 hours ago

    Roma, LGBTQ+ people, Jahovah’s Witnesses, the deaf, and the disabled were all targeted by the Holocaust and none of them were given an ethno-state where they act with impunity towards the indigenous population.

    The Holocaust wasn’t even the only genocide during WWII. What I’ve learned over my lifetime is a lot of people aren’t bothered by the Holocaust because it was the fucking Holocaust. They’re bothered it happened to people who look like them.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 hours ago

      That certainly explains the huge difference in reaction in Germany and the US when Russia attacked Ukraine (so, even though they weren’t targeted on their ethnicity the victims are mainly Whites) compared to their reaction to the many times more deadly, very explicitly about ethnicity Genocide, being committed by Israel in Gaza were the victims are mainly Arabs.

      In the Mainstream the Racism got disguised over the last half a century or so, but for most people empathy with the very human pain and suffering of others is filtered by a “could it be me there” filter.