#holocaust mention -

[animentality]

[the-catboy-minyan]

I will never forgive goyim for taking the word for the group that was literally all about mass murdering 6 million jews in the most horrific genocide in history that wasn't even 100 year ago, and twisting the meaning to be "evil person that is so fascist and evil they're not human anymore" and then turn around and call Jews that.

the Nazi belief is literally that JEWS ARE SUBHUMAN. Jews literally CANNOT be Nazis unless they genuinely see their people and themselves as subhuman and deserving of death.

[justsomeantifas]

Liberals Trump is literally Hitler don’t you understand!!!???

Liberals: If I could go back in time I WOULD have killed Hitler.

Random Guy Attempting to Live the Liberal Dream of Killing the “Literally Hitler” of Our Time: So I attempted to shoot Trump and got killed by secret service. Can someone pick up the gauntlet? Godspeed.

Liberals: Uhg … killing is so wrong. We should take a moral highground instead of hurting political discord in this great democracy.

[frownyalfred]

Certain sections of tumblr will truly have you believe that proshipping, shipping “problematic” pairings, or shipping anyone with an age gap of more than thirty seconds is worse than like, the actual Holocaust or something and I’m here to remind you that it absolutely, absolutely isn’t.

You are not a bad person because you read [trope/pairing]. Conversely, you are not a better person if you avoid [trope/pairing]. It’s all down to personal preference, and the more we buy into that peculiar flavor of Puritanism, the worse off we will be. Even if it feels morally “right” to some of y’all.

[spacelazarwolf]

all this shit with kanye has just solidified that jews aren’t safe on either end of the political spectrum. conservatives are finally denouncing him but other than that are doing nothing. progressives are making excuses for why jews actually shouldn’t be worried about what he’s saying and that we shouldn’t be “centering ourselves.” kanye went live on the air and said he loved nazis and thinks hitler was good. he tweeted a photo of his campaign logo and it was a swastika inside a Star of david. he said the holocaust didn’t happen. and everyone’s response has been “well technically the swastika is a symbol of peace” and “well technically jews are all european converts” and “well you guys keep bringing up the holocaust when it was forever ago, you don’t actually face any discrimination now” or “well you’re white so any antisemitic rhetoric doesn’t actually hurt you, it’s just rhetorical antisemitism not real material harm.”

fuck all of y’all honestly. really and truly. if you’re not absolutely horrified and incensed by the things kanye is saying, by the things his supporters are saying, and the fact that people in progressive spaces have created an environment that allows this to be swept under the rug, then i don’t want you near me.

[blackpearlblast]

honestly one of the things that's been wild for me to learn lately is that israel was responsible for enforcing the idea that the holocaust was an unparalleled genocide that stands apart from everything else that's happened in the course of human history. even before i understood well enough how deeply interconnected all genocides are, when i was a kid, i really fucking hated it. it felt so wrong to me for the holocaust to be The Genocide of human history. it felt disrespectful to other groups who had gone through genocide and it felt like weirdly dehumanizing and tokenizing to us. i didn't want to think of jews as The Group Who Went Through A Genocide, i wanted to see us how i was familiar with in our culture our holidays our art our singing our prayers. that's how i wanted other people to see us too! not that i was ashamed of what we had gone through but i just didn't want people's perception of us to just be that we were victims and i didn't want other peoples victimhood denied to them through that either. but yeah kind of wild to learn that israel and zionist rhetoric seems fairly responsible for this pet peeve of mine from childhood before i even really had a greater consciousness of solidarity or anything.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

This Jewish-American heritage month remember that superhero comics were created by Jews during the Holocaust specifically to be tools for spreading political activism to combat complacency with oppressive norms. People complaining about the genre "becoming woke" is them admitting they have no clue what they're talking about, and that they think that everything has to pander to their delicate sensibilities for it to have value.

The depoliticization of superhero comics is the problem, not these comics treating people from marginalized groups like human beings.

[errorid-mt7lt7k7unfr9ttfua5]

ok im less drunk now so i can actually express myself now

so, i just went to the bar with two of my close friends. we were just chatting and i happened to mention casually that canada has higher rates of antisemitism than the united states, and one of them went on a tirade about how jews are weaponising the holocaust and that its our fault that hamas exists (and antisemitism more generally) among other antisemitic shit, and im just...

i cant with this shit anymore. i want to be angry about this, i want to yell and scream and express just how horrible it makes me feel that goyim feel like they can just... Say shit like that? to their jewish friends? what the actual Fuck? i want to be angry, but if i were to fully express my anger, i would be written off and ignored. something something up to the point where youre not human.

i want to be able to trust people, but goyim are making it So Fucking Difficult. when i talk about antisemitism with people (especially white goyim), they are mostly dismissive. like, yall know so little about antisemitism that you cant see that This is what preceeded the fucking Holocaust.

I. Don't. Feel. Safe.

no Jew i have spoken to does.

and when i express that, you feel the need to rant about how 'we deserve it' and 'it's our fault' and 'we're exaggerating how bad the holocaust was'? I'm sorry, but you're antisemitic.

like, that's TEXTBOOK antisemitism, and there is absolutely NOTHING i can do to tell if someone is antisemitic other than telling them I'm Jewish and seeing how they react.

no matter how progressive someone is (or claims to be), they very well might be Violently antisemitic. 'oppression is bad' except for Jews 'killing is bad' except for Jews 'rape is bad' except for Jews, apparently.

I'm done. i will no longer tolerate this. i will no longer be in relation with antisemites, no matter how much i trust them, no matter how well they treat me, if you say shit like that, you don't deserve to be my friend.

[daloy-politsey]

Take the case of journalist William Zukerman. A respected Yiddish- and English-language writer in the 1930s and 1940s, with clips in Harpers and the New York Times, Zukerman started his own biweekly, the Jewish Newsletter, in 1948. It was highly critical of Jewish nationalism and its destructive effects in the new state of Israel and beyond.

In one story, Zukerman reported about a Holocaust survivor who had recently resettled in Israel, in the former home of an Arab family. The survivor became “openly obsessed” about her morality, Zukerman wrote, after her children found some of the evicted family’s possessions. “The mother was suddenly struck by the thought that her children were playing with the toys of Arab children who were now exiled and homeless,” Zukerman continued. “Is she not doing to the Arabs what the Nazis did to her and her family?”

By the early 1950s, the Jewish Newsletter had a few thousand subscribers, and its work was republished in many other outlets, Jewish and non-Jewish, with much larger circulations — Time magazine, for instance. Not all of Zukerman’s readers, however, opposed Zionism. Each of the hundreds of chapters of the Jewish student organization Hillel had a subscription to the Jewish Newsletter.

According to declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry files found by Levin, the Israeli government was alarmed by Zukerman’s influence on American Jews. It started a campaign to keep him from “confusing” Zionists about Israel and Palestinian rights. Israel aimed a letter-writing campaign at the New York Herald Post to discourage the paper from running more of Zukerman’s work, and hatched a scheme to distribute boilerplate text for Zionists to mail to other editors, asking them not to publish Zukerman anymore. The head of Israel’s Office of Information in New York worked to have the prestigious London-based Jewish Chronicle get rid of Zukerman’s column, and he lost the position. By 1953, his work no longer appeared in the Jewish press.

[historic-meme]

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This whole week l have been thinking alot about the Holocaust. So last night I re-read maus. One panel really stuck out to me during this reading. For context this is in Maus 2 when Art is talking to his therapist, a Holocaust survivor, about how he feels he could never measure up to his father who survived Auschwitz. At this point in the story his father had already past. May his memory be a blessing.

The dialogue, “but you weren’t in Auschwitz. You were in Rego Park,” hit me like a punch to the chest. I have no better way to explain the paradoxical guilt I felt and continue to feel as the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. I did not live during the Holocaust. It had ended before my grandmother reached eighteen years old. And yet, the Shoah seems to loom over me. Forever a reminder, that I am alive by sheer luck. My great grandfather’s parents as well as two of his brothers were murdered in Auschwitz. My great grandmother’s twin sister was also murdered in the Holocaust. Despite hours of research, I still have no idea where exactly she died.

Using the term guilty for what I feel doesn’t seem exactly right but there is no better word in the English language. Maybe if I was smarter or more articulate I could find better words.

A key theme of this chapter is intergenerational trauma. This is the same chapter that has this iconic image.

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I simply want to acknowledge the real and extremely painful intergenerational trauma and inherited survivors guilt felt by descendants of Jewish survivors. I know I struggled in the past with feeling like I even have any right to feel this way considering I am three generations removed from any of my family that were murdered in the Holocaust. If any other Jews struggle with thoughts like this, I want to assure you that your feelings are valid and real. Intergenerational trauma is complicated and the feelings that come with it don’t simply disappear once a certain number of generations from the event pass.

This post is specifically about the Holocaust and jewish intergenerational trauma stemming from our persecution and genocide. If this post resonates with you as a non-Jew who has intergenerational trauma I am glad, but please do not derail this post.

[disgruntled-detectives]

All gentiles need to read this. Read and understand. I am SICK of the Holocaust being used as a rhetorical device, and not a very real tragedy that the Jewish population STILL hasn't fully recovered from. (I cannot speak about the Roma population, who were also primary targets for extermination) It's not your political talking point. It's not your point of comparison.

It's.

Not.

Yours.

[queer-geordie-nerd]

As a queer, neurodivergent, disabled goy, I have to say, it really takes a monumentally callous level of ignorance and misunderstanding of history to speak over Jews about and attempt to co opt the deep, generational trauma of the fucking HOLOCAUST.

These groups were targeted, yes, but it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the evils of Nazism to not talk about *why.* ALL of these groups were targeted because of the Nazi belief in a huge, overarching, degenerate, worldwide Jewish conspiracy to bring down “normal” Aryan society. Jew hatred was at the root of literally every single belief and action the Nazis ever took. It was the air they breathed. Every single action they took, they took as a means to their end of eradicating Jewish existence and “influence” as they saw it, from the face of the world.

Any discussion of the Holocaust that doesn’t centre Jewish suffering as the *point* of it all is woefully inadequate and incomplete.

It is NOT about us.

[justsomeantifas]

Wild that the same people comparing Trump to Hitler who also happen to say they would travel back in time to kill Hitler are now posting their sympathies over Trump’s attempted assassination.

[the-catboy-minyan]

like the reason jkr denied book burnings of trans medical books isn't even antisemitism, it's because she refuses to acknowledge trans people existed in the past.

is it holocaust denial? yes, that's a documented event that happened as part of the holocaust, and she's denying it. but why do you care? because it's about you, it's about her engaging in holocaust denial to deny trans identities, not about her actually denying a part of the holocaust.

some of you don't even care the reasons those books were burned is because they were written by a Jewish doctor and Nazis saw gender affirming care as a Jewish conspiracy to weaken the population, you're only mad we lost years of trans research, and that a terf is denying that.

you don't care about the holocaust, you don't care about holocaust denial, you don't care about Nazi book burnings, you care Nazis burned these specific books that relate to your identity and that one popular terf is trying to say that never happened.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I'm sorry the costuber who did what?

oh fuck it. names will be named

Marika of Enchanted Rose Costumes posted on her IG story some years back, comparing vaccine mandates to laws requiring Jewish people to wear gold stars in the leadup to the H0locaust (censoring to avoid the tag)

when everyone else rightly told her that was um. not remotely okay or true. she doubled down and apparently posted some non-apology about how she should be allowed to have her own beliefs about vaccines

obviously this has all been deleted, and I don't know what she's done since then. maybe she's grown and changed. but I certainly stopped engaging with any of her content after that, because I don't want to give someone who thinks that way any attention and no evidence that she'd really apologized came my way