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isnt-it-too-dreamy · 8 months

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this mindset that comparing other genocides to the holocaust is so immoral and wrong and offensive is so nonsensical. comparing in this case is not about evaluating what was/is "worse", downplaying the severity of it, or erasing the unique contexts and characteristics that EVERY historical event obviously comes with, or anything like that, it's about identifying what genocide looks like and how it happens so that we can act to stop it if we see it. the "exceptionality" thinking when it comes to the holocaust has not helped anyone. in fact it prevents solidarity to others suffering a similar fate.

#i started that book once that spent an endless section debating whether the exceptionality of the holocaust was legit or not. i never even #reached the conclusion bc it was so unnecessarily long and the answer was so obvious to me.#yes it was unspeakably atrocious and a failure of humanity but to claim it as the single worst thing to ever happen... it is among one of #the worst things to ever happen certainly but to position it as the peak of evilness that no other events can ever come close to is stupid #and inhuman in its own right.#t

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