Hot takes - Judaism is just as bad as every other Abrahamic faith.
I’ve never had a Jew bother me about accepting their religion at a bus stop despite my best efforts to first politely dissuade them, then rudely dismissed their bullshit until I snapped and got outright hostile and offensive.
Judaism is better in one significant way: they find proselytizing offensive.
yeah I used to think it was the relatively chill nerdy less-a-piece-of-vile-genocidal-shit sibling before this, but no. apparently that’s fucking islam, and yes, I did watch the same beheading videos and read about the same FGM shit you did.
Another hot take: Atheism is a religion and is no better than the others LOL
Atheism is a religion like spectating is a sport. It isn’t.
Atheism is a religion like spectating is a sport. It isn’t.
That’s just your belief.
Belief isn’t religion. I also believe you’re being intentionally obtuse about this. That’s also just a belief and not a religion. Rhetorical question: do you believe the world is round? Would you call that a religion?
Rhetorical question: do you believe the world is round? Would you call that a religion?
Yeah, we have photos of the world. This is a physical thing. The existence of God is a metaphysical kind of thing, so any stance on this (whether belief in existence OR non-existence) is a religious belief.
Like most religious people, atheists believe that being a part of their religious group makes them special. But atheists tend to take it to a further degree than most religions to the point they believe they are above other religions and refuse to call themselves a religion. But atheism is a religion, it’s just part of your belief system that it isn’t. If it weren’t you would be more like “I guess we should agree to disagree” rather than acting like I’ve committed blasphemy by saying atheism is a religion.
The existence of God is a metaphysical kind of thing, so any stance on this (whether belief in existence OR non-existence) is a religious belief.
See, that’s where I disagree. I’m an atheist and I don’t believe or claim to know that there is no god. I don’t believe that there isn’t a god at all. All I believe is that there’s no sufficient proof at this time that there positively is a god. Much less a god that demands certain behaviours/rituals, diets and dress codes and whatnot. You can’t prove a negative after all.
acting like I’ve committed blasphemy by saying atheism is a religion.
I never did this, though. We’re just talking as far as I’m aware, I’m not offended by your stance in the slightest, I just took your first comment as an invitation to discuss this matter.
I very much agree with you that many atheists take their belief too far. Any atheist that claims to know there is 100% certainly no god is taking their belief to dogmatic and religious belief levels. Since you can’t prove a negative we’ll never have proof that there’s no god in the same way we’ll never have proof that there’s no flying spaghetti monster. I don’t think the existence of a god or a flying spaghetti monster has been demonstrated sufficiently for me to adopt that belief. To me it seems an unnecessary (indeed metaphysical) invention to explain physical phenomena that have already been explained with physical evidence. And that leads me to being an atheist. For all intents and purposes there is no god until there is proof that there is. Excuse me for yet another metaphor, but I hope to explain my way of thinking better through an example: I also believe there’s no dogshit under my shoe until I can smell, see or otherwise detect it. Unless that’s the case I’m going to act as if my shoes are clean but that’s different than me saying there’s no shit under my shoe and there never will be. The former is a working hypothesis that can change depending on circumstances and the latter is holding on to a belief no matter what (religiously, one might say).
You identify as an atheist. Atheism is a group with common beliefs. There are common expressions like “You can’t prove a negative” that atheists recite similar to how religious people will cite scripture.
Many atheists will purchase books from people like Richard Dawkins. Are those books just empty pages? Nope, it’s full of guidance from someone who fulfills a similar role to that of a priest in a religion.
Things like “flying spaghetti monster” is joke atheists share that’s based around denigrating other religions. People who are zealous in their religion are often intolerant towards people with other beliefs.
Really atheism has all the properties of a religion. The only difference is that atheists claim that atheism is not a religion. Which is a belief, not objective fact. And there are other religions that claim not to be a religion but more of a “way of life”.
The bottom line is that you’ve found some significance to there not being scientific proof of something metaphysical which by definition can’t be proven. So significant that you take on atheist as an identity.
But it’s all just your belief. Scientifically speaking, we know there are some things that can never be proven, see the Halting Problem. The beliefs of atheists are consistent with scientific thought from a century ago, beliefs that have been disproven. But like most religions old ideas are clung to despite any evidence to the contrary because your beliefs are connected to your identity. A Christian can’t question the resurrection of Christ because if they did they wouldn’t be a Christian. Similarly an Atheist can’t question the capability of science to prove everything because then they wouldn’t be an atheist.
Religion is like that, it gets you stuck in a thought pattern you can’t question.
That makes sense if you don’t know what words mean
Islam Christianity and Judaism all neat to sit down and take a beat for one hot second.
They all have this toxic byproduct which are intransigent zealots who want to punish all the other people in their country who don’t follow their dogma.
Is… Is that really a hot take? That’s more like stating the obvious.
Yeah this nicely summarises the level of understanding of American internet teenagers about the Middle East.
I would hope at least this much, but ideally more. It probably depends on the American teenager though.
I’m saying it’s dumb and wrong
I’m saying the mischaracterization of the meme as juvenile is incorrect as the meme contains the minimum information everyone should know.
Could you add Hamas is still holding people hostage, which is a war crime? Also maybe mention that the current leader of Hamas planned and executed an attack on villages where over a thousand people were brutally butchered?
But I guess that makes it less simple, doesn’t it? Sucks that reality is too complicated to fit into a meme.
The holocaust is happening again at the hands of the first victims?
Tale as old as time.
What exactly do you mean by “first victims”?
Asking, because my paternal ancestors happen to be Armenian from Khodorchur of Dayq province.
But that’s the cause only of my irritation, while the weird feeling from reading your comment is because mass murders of whole peoples are not anything new in human history. It’s just that Germany lost so conclusively in WWII that the winning powers decided to make it a crime - when judging Germany. Not Belgium, not UK, not France, not USA and USSR, of course, because these all had crimes of that kind on their sufficiently recent record.
One can speculate that Jewish holocaust made Europeans feel bad because it happened to rather European people. Or because it was committed by the losing side.
Or maybe, as with Baudrillard’s simulacra, all Westerners care is what’s portrayed as the evil of the day and the good of the day in their media. It’s a kind of entertainment, and they don’t care what the world really is.
all of those are a bit true. laws are for enforcing power, not justice, not morality. always, every time. the powerful will always have a need to kill if they want to remain powerful, and don’t love having their hands tied (except in private; they’re all subs, it’s so weird).
but yes, until jews were white, nobody gave toooo terribly many shits.
and yeah, most people just care about simple bullshit narratives. that’s what liberalism and fascism are.
queer people?
because the first victims of the holocaust were queer people. stop writing us out of your fucking history for the sake of zionist propaganda.
I love how you all make a point of playing the victim and making it all about you when you are not even part of the discourse. Queers are the new vegans, apparently.
google “nazi book burning” find the photo you think of when you hear/read that phrase, then look at the context for that photo, what books were being burned, where, and why. please don’t reply until you have.
Unlike your stupid country, we study history. You were not the FIRST victims, you were among them. Doesn’t mean you can make it all about you. My god that’s why some people can’t stand your fucking politicised community.
wow, a zionist AND a homophobe. I’m… what’s the name for a feeling that means the opposite of shocked but is far far more unpleasant?
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It’s called “dibs”
Let’s add: “Jihadism is dangerous”
“Hamas is a terrorist organisation”
“Innocent should not die no matter if they were born in Tel Aviv or in Gaza”
“7 of October of 2023 was a terrorist attack”
“Situation in a conflict zone where both sides has been killing each other for decades is not simple and has no simple solution”
“Blindly supporting muyahidins, I mean, intifada, has not a good historic record”
“A Hamas led Palestine would be very similar to any other Islamic dictatorship, which is not good for Palestinians, specially women and LGBT”
Under any circumstances innocents should die, and anyone (ANYONE) killing civilians is a piece of shit. But the fact that Israel government is a Piece of Shit does not mean that Hamas is not also a Piece of Shit. Some people seems to forget that when it comes to codemn the cruelties inflicted in that region.
“Situation in a conflict zone where both sides has been killing each other for decades is not simple and has no simple solution”
It is not a “conflict zone” and it is not “complicated”. It is classical settler colonialism with the inevitable goal of ethnically cleansing and genociding the native population. By this logic the Nazi “Lebensraum” ideology of invading Poland, systematically murdering not only Jews and other minorities, but death-Squadding entire villages to then settler their own people on the land would somehow be “complicated”.
I suppose we live in different realities where 7 of October never happened or where missiles are not raining every day over Israel trying to indiscriminately killing people
If we live in different realities there’s nothing to argue.
In my reality there has not been found any extermination camps. And the lots of civilians killed are killed like civilians are killed in most wars. Shitty but not comparable to ww2 Germany.
There’s a conflict, there is a war between two tyrant and radical organizations. Israel Army (Supported by USA) and Palestine Army(Supported by Islamic countries and terrorist organizations), and both are being pretty shitty and trying to exterminate the other one.
And the lots of civilians killed are killed like civilians are killed in most wars. Shitty but not comparable to ww2 Germany.
IDF is literally making tiktoks braggin about killing unarmed random people. Doctors in Gaza report children executed with single shots to the head, indicating IDF snipers deliberately hunting children. We’ve seen people burned alive, people beheaded, unarmed people hunted down by drones, clearly marked aid convoys blown up, journalists assasinated with precision strikes… And Gaza looks very similar to Stalingrad in being a field of rubble.
The scale is not the same and Israel is not running extermination camps (yet). But on the military side it has a lot of similarities to Eastern Front Wehrmacht.
Have you ever follow a war?
That happens in Gaza, happens in Yemen, happens in western sahara, happens in Ukraine, happens in Irak and syria, happens in every place there is a war…
It’s not different to any other war. As bad as all the others.
The Holocaust didn’t cause the impression it had because those things. Not because they killed people, but because of the scale and the industrial method of killing those people. Without those two factors killing, torturing, destroying people, and even ethic cleansing is just a Wednesday in any war.
Hamas is the resistance AGAINST a terrorist organization, sweetie.
Jihad is not dangerous when foreign countries are occupying your land and killing your people.
Hell, Jihad is not dangerous period. It’s the context in which the Jihad is performed that has the potential to be dangerous.
Hell, Jihad is not dangerous period.
My word! I simply had no idea that 9/11 and all the car bombings performed by ISIS in the late 2000s were not dangerous! You have no idea how much better that makes me feel.
It’s surprising to see how many people don’t know what Jihad even is.
9/11 car bombings ISIS in the late 2000s
You’ll be surprised to learn that none of these things fall under Jihad. I kindly request you do a little bit of research.
WoW! Just WoW!
XXI century and people defending Jihadism. Which is literally killing the infidel because your imaginary friend Allah told you so.
I suppose killing innocent and children, and imposing a medieval oppression on society is ok in your moral book if it is for the glory of Allah.
I suppose that you support then the murder of my family members who had died in the Jidhadist bombings in Madrid. The murder of a innocent teacher surely did a lot for resisting the evil west attacking their peaceful countries which surely don’t behead homosexuals.
It looks like you have a lack of understanding of what Jihad even is, as well as the application of Jihad in war.
For example, take this:
killing innocent and children killing the infidel
Both of these comments wildly contradict Islamic doctrine as accepted by the majority of Muslims - lose the bias for a second and do a bit of research; you’ll see what I mean.
Additionally,
imaginary friend Allah
It’s quite rude to start throwing insults at basically everyone who believes in God based on your own misconceptions, or even otherwise. A level-headed discussion where insults don’t start randomly getting thrown around would do far better for everyone here.
Religion is not real. To myself belief in any God is an insult to human intelligence.
I would never support any religion. As religion is the dead of freedom and a wildcard to torture and oppression.
And religions that support the Holy War are just plain evil.
You tell my what justification there is to call Jihad over my country, as it was called by a Caliphate and we suffered several terrorist attacks over it. My people have been living here since before Mohammed invented his religious scam. What possibly justification does anyone has to kill innocent people to conquer my land for the glory of Allah? People DIED over that, so don’t tell my I’m not understanding things, because I clearly understand that people who were alive are now dead because they called the Jihad on us .
You can say whatever you want but your lies won’t bring the dead from their graves.
Reading your comment, I understand that I cannot clear up the various misconceptions (that I perceive) you have, which seem to be the result of complicated external factors and have deep emotional roots.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Allah knows best.
Please. How do you even talk about my “complicated external factors with emotional roots” when you just believe what you believe because you were indoctrinated by a religion, probably since they day you were born.
My morals come from the rational thinking and does not include justifying murder. Can you say the same?
can you say the same
Yes, I can. But I suppose you won’t agree anyways? Either way, it’s all good.
good thing that Hamas only exists because of Israeli support, not just via suitcases of money, but also due to a thorough expunging of moderate agnostic opposition! and hamstringing the fatwa forces during the Hamas-Fatwa civil war where Hamas took over Gaza (Hamas won some local elections, but at the time it was still part of the Palestinian state)
That’s pretty clear. Same happened with Al Qaeda and the USA.
So it amazes me when people follow hamas propaganda so easily.
I can even agree, to a degree.
You see - if Hamas would have an upper hand against Israel, it would absolutely direct forces to massacre Jews and kickstart apartheid and everyone would be cheering for Israel and against Palestine.
But here we are, with Israel being bigger and stronger and using its advantage to raze Palestine to the ground along with innocent people who did nothing to deserve this. And that’s why people are pro-Palestine, really.
Also, while women and LGBT folks may suffer in their rights under an Islamic dictatorship, this is kinda better than just being dead. Israel does just that, and many in the Israeli command have made it very clear they do not care about the rights of Palestinian civilians.
I do understand that people tend to feel more inclined to side with the “weak part” of a fight. But being the weak part does not mean being in the right.
Both sides of a conflict can be wrong, even if someone is imposing their wrong on the others by a stronger use of force.
But I know how Hamas would masacrate Israeli civilians if given the chance and I cannot support that.
We need to thing a third way, different to what both sides are currently proposing and trying to do.
I think figures like Gandhi or MLK showed how to fight oppression without going into blatant murder and Jihad.
You won’t be happy with your opinion here. Lemmy is a pretty pro-terrorist place and gleefully ignore what Hamas, Mullah, Taliban (just look at Afghanistan) and all the other did, do and stand for. But thanks for you effort.
I’m just even surprised by the term “Free” Palestine.
Who would be Free in that supposed country?
Women would be free? No, they will be subjected to their husbands will.
Children would be free? No, they would be indoctrinated in Islam their whole life.
LBGT people would be free? No, they will be executed.
Non muslisms would be free? No, thay will be second class citizens.
Regular men would be free? No, they will have to follow the Coran or else.
What it is proposed by Hamas is not a Free Palestine, not by any definition of Free that I know.
Free from occupation…
Not the occupation of an Islamic Caliphate.
Changing one tyrant for another does not make you free.
Also if Israel citizens are “occupying” that place. What do you suggest to do with them are they not welcome there?, illustrate me on the solution, but please do not use the words “final solution”.
Because sorry to break your bubble, Hamas does not propose peacefully coexistence of jews and Muslims on the same land.
Israel is occupying Palestinian land… we want to be free of occuaption. Not sure why you bring Islam into this since Palestinian society is quite diverse and encompasses many different perspectives and religions. I myself am a Palestinian atheist.
My suggestion is: one democratic state of Palestine for Jews, Muslims, Christians, whenever the fuck lives there. Democratic voting, a President.
“final solution” is a now used by Israeli officials to describe Gaza so rofl this is not even a serious convo now. You are just gaslighting and talking to a person in your head.
I would be down with making the whole land a unique democratic state, free to anyone to vote or belief whatever they want like any democratic nation.
But I’m sorry to say that no side of the conflict seeks that. Not Hamas, not the Israeli government. Both just seek total extermination of the other side.
Most of current Palestine is not only Muslim, but also pretty radical about their beliefs, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles, there’s no sugar coating it.
I seek it. I’m one side in this too. There are many Palestinians and many Israelis who just want to have normal lives and full human rights for themselves and others.
I think you then might want to learn more about current Palestine, which is much more diverse than you describe.
Tell me, what should be done about the problem of Arabs and other brown skinned peoples currently occupying your God-given covenant and sacred land? Should the methods of the past be utilized - that they shall be put to the sword, they and their women and children, their livestock and all that loves in that land, their high places thrown down, and the Temple rebuilt?
Firstly if you think Muslims are brown skinned you have an incredibly narrow vision of the world.
Muslim world is pretty diverse in color. And many of them are way whiter than me. As a Mediterranean I have a beautiful dark olive tone on my skin.
Palestinians are not occupying anything. So there’s no problem with their presence in that territory. Also if we defend free inmigration we should have accepted free inmigration of the Israel people to Palestine. So Israeli presence on former Palestinian-only land is not a problem.
A diverse country should be the solution. If Israelites want to live there they are free to do so. If Palestinians want to live there they are free to do so.
They both should be able to live side by side. And both groups should forget their Gods, because Gods does not exist.
both groups should forget their Gods
Welcome to the Middle East, please do try to stand up in a synagogue in Jerusalem and say this out loud.
I think you need to be more explicit with your first statements. Any line fewer than 5 words is too vague. It should be long and read like it was scrawled over an entire vehicle.
Let’s just not have this deeply embarrassing virtue-signalling.
If we didn’t signal our virtues, nothing would ever happen.
People MUST speak their feelings about things or the very worst things go unchallenged.
What you meant to say is “Let’s not make me cringe by making me think about things that have deeply divisive social consequences in either one direction or another, yet I keep getting bombarded with messages that I need to take a side on this issue, why can’t I just play video games in peace.”
Perhaps, but this is just mutual masturbation, and Lemmy is a total echo chamber. You can challenge things when you hear them, in the real world. In my experience it helps to treat this as a teaching opportunity, while understanding that you can’t bully people into a different point of view. I don’t play video games.
in the real world
An entire generation of people have been all but ruined because their parents raised them saying “Don’t believe anything on the internet, it’s not the real world” and as a result it’s become the place where we all get all of our information, opinions and news and do most of our social interactions, and yet have this “out” we can always pull when it makes us uncomfortable.
Don’t like what some people somewhere think or say? Don’t need to engage or weigh in, retreat to a bubble. Don’t like what someone said about your comment? Say the whole thing isn’t real, call light to the “bubble” while still being in it.
It’s so, so many people. Just avoiding uncomfortable realities, repeating lines that sound like they work to stop arguments or discomfort, not actually engaging with anything in a way that would challenge your own feelings or beliefs.
Well, there’s some truth to that as well.
So many people seem legitimately confused by what zionism is. At its core it is simply the legitimacy of the Israeli state. Only the most radical versions contain the violent expansionolist ideals. But there’s a reason the only people ranting about it in such an unqualified way this time last year were white supremacists. Because without qualification, the implication is dismantlement of the Israeli state, which would do absolutely nothing to stop the cycle of violence. It is difficult to imagine that this is a good faith argument from anyone who is seriously engaged with fundamental geopolitics.
Unfortunately I fear that this is a perfect example of linguistic subterfuge, where serious bad actors have injected this language into otherwise well meaning causes, and I would implore those who seriously seek justice for Palestine to avoid this particular vocabulary.
At its core it is simply the legitimacy of the Israeli state.
You make it far too complicated. The legitimacy of the state of Israel is exactly what’s being debated. Many would argue the Zionists had no right to move to Palestine and even less right to steal Palestinian land to create their state. To this day Israeli settlers are still stealing more and more Palestinian land, and the Israeli government seems to be rather supportive of their activities.
Only the most radical versions contain the violent expansionist ideals.
Zionism led to the creation of the state of Israel and it was violent right from the start.
Unfortunately I fear that this is a perfect example of linguistic subterfuge
It really is not. You don’t have to agree with any of it, but the legitimacy of the state of Israel is not widely accepted in the region, they are seen as a sort of colonial power that have no right to be there and should be dismantled.
So paint your picture for me how you believe Israel is dismantled peacefully.
But there’s a reason the only people ranting about it in such an unqualified way this time last year were white supremacists
The white supremacists were saying “Gaza will be a parking lot.” How did most of Lemmy become “white supremacists” to you?
But there’s a reason the only people ranting about it in such an unqualified way this time last year were white supremacists.
You think that leftists only started talking about Zionism a year ago?
Everyone seems to like to argue that people who dislike Israel object simply to Israel’s right to exist. What we object to is the fact that they are filming themselves killing women and children.
If a state needs to be allowed to commit genocide in order to exist, it should not be allowed to exist. If it does not need to commit genocide to continue to exist, then why does it do so?
I’m not sure which part of my comment you believe suggests Israel is acting appropriately in Gaza. I am directly addressing this recent trend of merging the real and valid criticism of Israel, with some unfortunately loaded language which supporters of Israeli violence exploit to minimize said criticism.
It’s absolutely insane that merely saying “hey, your criticism is valid enough that you don’t need to merge your language with neo nazis” is even the slightest bit controversial.
I would upvote without the last sentence. The Holocaust was a singular event as there have been many singular events, and none repeated itself, neither as tragedy nor as farce, but some of them rhyme
Holocaust is a general term, and there have been others, here are some pictures of huge piles of skulls from the Cuban Holocaust done by the Spanish in the late 1800s:
You’ve got a point there, the term is technically older and historically used in a wider sense. Looking at google Ngrams, it was barely used before the second half of the 20th century. Words change meaning and when a word is strongly associated with one event and it was barely used before that, it is safe to say that it now exclusively refers to that.
Not fond of meaningless arguments about definitions designed to derail a discussion.
definitions
Ah, right, because words don’t actually mean what they mean. They mean what I feel they should mean. Thank you for reminding me of this, clearly, universal truth. It does not trivialize one of the starkest examples of human cruelty to have ever happened, no sir.
Mind out, people on here literally believe that.
Gtfo with your linguistic prescriptivism, asshole
Most descriptivist will spend hours arguing (not as in disagreeing but as in discussing) which word means what in which context and for which person. Can I use “to argue” in a neutral sense and what about the noun “argument”? Why exactly is this a different story? But not you, you got it right and everyone else got it wrong.
I don’t even know what the meme is trying to say with the holocaust comparison. Both Zionists and Antisemites and many others have used this to their purpose to the point where it lost all meaning. When “the Jews learned evil in Germany” and Israel is “hell on earth” and a nazi state committing holocaust on the Palestinians, and killing one Jew is holocaust and so is abortion, the animal industry and everything in between and beyond, than either the holocaust happened only once – or it has no meaning at all and happens everywhere at once. You decide.
Ok this objection I can abide. Metaphors are inherently ambiguous. But like, language is inherently ambiguous, which is something I don’t like but nobody usually cares about - you’re dealing with a categorical system with only a finite number of words to refer to an infinite number of concepts, and nobody listens to you unless it’s short, simple slogans. So really, there’s no good way to use language at all.
In this context, the point is “the thing happening in Palestine should evoke the same emotional response as the Holocaust and not be ignored simply because the victims aren’t white”, for which there’s no way to evoke the appropriate emotional response without metaphor, which is why I got emotional
Maybe this is a topic that should make us emotional and I even feel your first comment but I’m coming from a different perspective. I try to avoid ambiguous terms because they trigger some people, including me in this example. People say Israel isn’t a white settler colonial state to avoid saying how bad it is. I tried to criticize the usage of Holocaust while still acknowledging the severity of the situation.
164000 (give or take, we can’t know the exact numbers) casualties with something like 70000 fatalities since 1947 in the Israel-Palestine war.
Let’s say that all of these numbers are directly from Israel and that they are all lies. Let’s say that they are, actually, triple - fuck it let’s make it quadruple the amount.
That’s 656000 casualties and 280000 people dead over a 76 year period. The Holocaust was 5 years with 6 million people dead. That’s 42 million (Edit, I’m kinda fucking dumb) people dead. Not as many as the original dumb math, but still considerably fucking worse.
Them comparing what’s happened in Palestine over the past 76 years to what the Nazis did during the Holocaust is not only wildly disingenuous, it shows they have no real concept of just how fucking bad the Holocaust actually was. It is only indicative of their ignorance, they aren’t somehow communicating more clearly despite them having convinced themselves otherwise.
What’s happening in Gaza and Palestine is bad. Awful even, a horrible blemish on humanity until our species dies. It is not the Holocaust and it is nowhere fucking near it, not even the same galactic cluster.
Edit: I wrote this to the person you’re responding to but they’re genuinely dumb so I’m posting it under your comment. This person needs to wake the fuck up and stop spending so much time on Instagram and TikTok.
Edit2: I fixed the dumb bad brain math. It is done.
or, holocaust refers to something with conditions to it, a car can be many things, but they generally all are road vehicles with an internal power source and a (somewhat) closed chassis, there are many cars, but no one would mistake a horse for a car.
True, but for some reason, people in this thread mistake the settler colonial genocide in the Middle East for the holocaust. I’m glad you’re with me! I’m not the only voice of reason anymore.
Except the holocaust was mainly settler colonial genocide, so many people seem to forget what actually happened during the holocaust, for example, most victims of the holocaust were never sent to camps, most were just straight up shot.
It’s just prescriptivism, donkey, the linguistic aspect is implied.
Look up the words you use before you use them, please. Do yourself and me a favor.
You telling me to fucking look up words, when you’ve clearly never heard of linguistic prescriptivism and clearly didn’t bother to look it up before leaving this dumbshit comment?
ChatGPT: Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about pandas
Prescriptivism: n - the belief that there are correct and wrong ways to use language and that books about language should give rules to follow, rather than describing how language is really used
Shh, shh. It’s time to get to bed lil’ dude. You’ve learned so much about context clues today! Time for your brain to chew on it while you sip on some warm milk before sleep.
Edit: I forgot to tell you that you did a great job! I’m sorry, that was probably a pretty stressful wait.
If there’s no holocaust in Gaza, go ahead and fking move there you condescending prick
The language about Zionism is pretty problematic as well, as it’s fundamentally just the legitimacy of the Israel state. That ship has sailed, and attempting to dismantle Israel is not going to create peace. Getting serious about forcing Israel to abide by international laws is the path forward. Implying the state is illegitimate and borrowing extremist nomenclature from neonazis is not.
Zionism is used for a Jewish ethno state. A multi cultural state wouldn’t be Zionism
That is one usage of the term. The more common and liberal (and historic) terminology is precisely to make a multicultural state which is accommodating and or safe for Jewish people, which is closer to what Israel has been pre Netanyahu.
For what it’s worth, I tend to agree that Israel is something like the original sin of the conceptual post war nation state. But again, that cat is not going back into that bag. My point is not that Israel is without sins, it is that anti-Zionism comes with a significant amount of linguistic baggage which more precise langue avoids. It is far more productive to articulate the specific behaviors of modern Israel which one finds unacceptable, rather than to dive into this specific linguistic battle.
It is extremely dangerous and part of both the new Nazis and Zionist playbook to designate the Holocaust as a “singular event”, implying that there was no genocide of similar scope before, or there could be after it.
Looking for example how Britain systematically stared more than 10 million people to death in India, the Holocaust isn’t even the worst genocide in terms of absolute numbers.
In particular in Germany this “singularity” trope is heavily used as propaganda, of how Germany has learned from its history, when it didn’t. New authoritarian measures? Cannot be compared because how dare you compare it to the rise of fascism, that lead to the one and only Holocaust?! Deliberate ramping up of racist rethoric accompanied by more violent hate crime? It is not the Holocaust so why are you saying it feels like the late 20s again?!
And of course subsequently: How dare you say Gaza is a concentration camp?! How can you imply any similarity between Israel and the Nazis?! You evil antisemite! Oh you are a renowned Jewish scholar that studied the Holocaust? Your parents have barely survived the concentration camps? Well you are against Israel so you are “alledgedly Jewish” or how about “self hating Jew”?
This is the actual discourse in Germany. Jews not aligned with Zionism are heavily targeted by Politicians and state bureaucrats in a heavily antisemitic manner. And this “Holocaust is singular” argumentation is part of it.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-strange-logic-of-germanys-antisemitism-bureaucrats
the Holocaust isn’t even the worst genocide
Yes, the Holocaust was one of many genocides. Still it is the only holocaust. You can compare it to other genocides without equalizing it (a differentiation that works much less in German).
In particular in Germany this “singularity” trope is heavily used as propaganda
True, but so is the opposite. I tried to frame my first comment not in that propagandistic way. That narrative goes like: Germany is the country of thinkers and poets, we had Luther, Goethe and Einstein, than something bad happened but all my relatives were in the resistance and after 1945 there aren’t any nazis anymore anywhere now. And it can’t repeat anyway so why bother.
That’s not how I framed it. I deliberately said it’s one of many singular events and it “rhymes” with others (including present day events)
If the holocaust wasn’t singular at all, it wasn’t that bad. Shit happens. The Nazis weren’t that bad either. Other states do similar things. We don’t have to learn from our past when it repeats anyway.
There are many lines to draw here but please have the intellectual integrity not to draw one at the usage of a single word. Take the second to look how it is used.
And there are differences between the holocaust and colonialist genocides (“the enemy within”), as there are commonalities. Each is singular and thereby they are all connected.
How dare you say Gaza is a concentration camp?!
Yes, it is, as where the gulags and the US had concentration camps for Japanese people during the Second War to End War (George Takei, the actor of Sulu in Star Trek, lived in one as a kid).
Is Israel an apartheid state? To a degree, as is the US with the illegalized immigrants and former prisoners aren’t allowed to vote (and who’s more likely to be imprisoned?) Even if the law applies to everyone the same way, to quote Anatole France: “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.” (I’ve got this quote from Worshiping Power by Peter Gelderloos)
I’m an anarchist. In my view, all states are bad. I’m not singling out Israel even though it is a good (as in evil) example. There is a lot to criticize and for much of it, you find similar things in other states also worth criticizing. While all states are and have been bad and did bad stuff, only one made the holocaust happen. Still, others did similar things. Denying this can be used for both sides.
And I still don’t know what the meme is referring to. To October 9th or the genocide in Gaza? Or to Sudan? Why is no one talking about Sudan? (Me included, I know something is going there but don’t ask me what)
If you’re a German, you make me sick to be another left-wing German.
Yes, it is, as where the gulags and the US had concentration camps for Japanese people during the Second War to End War (George Takei, the actor of Sulu in Star Trek, lived in one as a kid
Gaza is a lot closer to the Nazi KZs than the Japanese internment camps ever even got close to, the only difference is that the space in Gaza is bigger, and they managed to smuggle stuff in. Israel kept them on a strict water ration (having destroyed the entire native infrastructure decades ago) only “turning on the taps” a few days out of the week, keeping the population on hunger rations, in an open effort to starve the population out, a plan proudly proclaimed as being a moral good by a member of the Israeli government.
Is Israel an apartheid state? To a degree, as is the US
No, it isn’t, and you obviously don’t know jack shit by the rest of that paragraph. Israel is a full on apartheid state, Arab-Israelis are literally not even citizens, many laws specifically single out and directly target said minorities, they are not allowed to use the vast majority of large road networks, they are not allowed to own land in “Jewish areas”, they aren’t allowed into “Jewish areas” unless they have specific reason to be there. the police nationwide has instituted a de-facto curfew for all Arabs to be back in their ghettos, Israeli EMTs will literally strap patients onto the hood of their ambulances, etc…
people aren’t making the comparisons between the behavior of Germans during the Nazi rule, and modern day far-right theocratic ethno-fascist Israel. We see the same dehumanization, the same hate, the same disregard and disgust of the “other”, we see the same actions, the same propaganda (multiple members of the Israeli government have literally used the 14 words), the same Lebensraum, and You, and people like you are so fucking up your own ass about how big strong and bad Germany was (another point many current neo-Nazis will agree on, because if only Germany is capable of this type of evil, it is because they must somehow b a superior “race”), that you will actively repeat Nazi shit, as long as the framing is right. you are proof that the German education system has failed you in regard to learning about the horrors of the Nazi regime, because you are more focused on the picture of the mustache man than what they did.
things aren’t bad because the Nazis did them, the Nazis were bad because of what they did, and if Israel is committing the same atrocities, they are deservedly compared to nazis.
And I still don’t know what the meme is referring to. To October 9th or the genocide in Gaza? Or to Sudan? Why is no one talking about Sudan? (Me included, I know something is going there but don’t ask me what)
tho, you do get one thing correct, you have no fucking clue about anything that goes on in that region.
P.S. please don’t call yourself an anarchist, you’re just another “Anti-D”
Way to go shitting all over someone trying to give a nuanced take. You completely lost it here, and for what? For your right (or pleasure) to equate Israelis to Nazis? Well done.
nuanced take? please, there wasn’t a scrap of nuance in that entire post of theirs, it was literally the same holocaust denying shit you see on every conservative news outlet.
In what way do see him denying the holocaust? He does confirm it was a singular event
it wasn’t even considered a singular event until the 70s, where everyone started to forget the other victims, you had the Jewish holocaust, the Romani holocaust, the Slavic holocaust etc… but ironically since most of the world still saw is as fine to be racist to these people, we gladly forgot about these groups. Hence, we are left with the holocaust of the only people to have a larger representative community in the allied powers as being the victims of the holocaust in everyone’s collective minds.
And to be fair, it does sort of piss me off when people go around spreading the myth of the singular holocaust, something that is in its very essence holocaust denial, because you deny many of the differing victims of Nazi brutality and murder, to deny a modern day holocaust.
Then again, try explaining to people that the genocide the Germans perpetrated didn’t start with millions dead, or that it mostly took place outside the camps (misconceptions Nazis also still use to this day, if you ever heard the “cookies” or “pizza” analogy from the far right).
I love how you totally ignore what I said and selectively read my comment the way it fits your prejudices. What makes me Anti-D? That I want other states to fall, too? I mean there are anti-D anarchists who want Israel to fall last. I explicitly said that Israel is an especially bad state implying that I want it to fall sooner than later. But what do I know.
To quote Gelderloos again, in case you accept him as an anarchist: “the category of citizen, from the beginning, was intended to be exclusionary, not inclusionary.” Talking about the French revolution, where the bourgeoisie introduced the social contract theory to exclude the lower social strata. Does that make them an apartheid state? No. Are all states apartheid states? No. Is South Africa right to accuse Israel of being one? Yes. Did I generalize to provoke people into realizing that all states are bad? Maybe.
if Israel is committing the same atrocities, they are deservedly compared to nazis.
Where did I say that you can’t compare them?
Did you know that the Lebensraum ideology was inspired by Manifest Destiny, the colonial expansion of the US? But sure, Nazi Germany and Israel are the only states that committed any kind of genocide in history. There are people arguing the US didn’t commit genocide against the indigenous population. I say it’s an ongoing genocide, it never stopped.
you will actively repeat Nazi shit, as long as the framing is right
I was repeating a word they use and pointed out that I used it differently and that disagreeing with this word is also used by Nazis so maybe it matters how we use words.
Now this is what I call mental illness
In what way is the holocaust happening again? That’s a pretty strong claim.
There’s still those concentration camps in China that we’ve All just accepted as a normal part of life now
Does China have the US government by the nuts? Does China get F-35s and 2000lb bombs funded by my tax dollars for their genocide? Is China a shining example of western democracy and values in their part of the world? Is it possible to be upset about more than one genocide at a time?
In the order of your questions:
-Yes, they absolutely do.
-Yes, not F-35’s specifically, but how much shit have you bought that was made in China over the last few years? We are absolutely funding them.
-No, and neither is Israel.
-Apparently not for you dumbasses.
Is it possible to be upset about more than one genocide at a time?
Yes, now be upset and in arms about the Genocide in China. Go ahead. We are waiting.
True
Is the western world supporting China? I was unaware?.
We use their inhumane labor to cut cost here at home. Oops, it’s OK, you must’ve forgot.
Simply stop buying Chinese products!
Something something Amazon largest retailer
Rather different from directly funding their war machine. And capitalism has never been a mechanism for expressing the moral desires of voters, has it?
What is your actual argument, because it sounds like:
“Nothing can be done so we shouldnt draw attention to it or even talk about it in Genocide related discussions.”
Which, if I follow the leftist playbook, you are an advocate for genocide.
No. My argument is is twofold:
- that bringing up Uyghurs when discussing Gaza is whataboutism.
- it’s also not a reasonable comparison given that US (and western, generally) leverage and culpability are completely different.
Except you didn’t adress any of my arguments.
Dont bother arguing with these people. They get their history from tiktok and I’m not even sure they can read.
I am sure the holocaust was also a “pretty strong claim” during the actual holocaust.
That’s why Jan Karski toned down his report on the Holocaust; he was afraid people wouldn’t believe the unimaginable horrors he saw. He was still met with skepticism.
The holocaust was a specific event, not a category.
Not really.
Everyone was really horrified when information on what was happening went public.
And there were little doubts on making what needed to be done to punish perpetrators and making Germany incapable of doing something like that again for years to come.
Shitty holocaust deniers were something that came later.
Yea but you see, we can’t stop this particular genocide because…
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a bigger genocide has happened in the past and you can only ever stop the worstest one. Or something.
About 40k Palestinians have been killed by Israel so far. These people are stateless and not allowed to leave, have limited access to food and water, and have no hope of ever fighting back or escaping. That includes the innocent children who represent a huge fraction of the victims. It certainly draws parallels to the Holocaust, if nothing else, though the scale and motivations are different.
Unless 40k is equivalent to 6m, I have a hard time accepting the rhetoric that this is on par with the holocaust.
Statements like that are how the movement has largely been defined as anti-Jew to liberals, conservatives, and centrists.
Imagine if we stopped Nazi Germany after they killed 40k and before they got to 17 million (yes, the holocaust has many non Jewish victims too, 6 million is sadly an understatement).
Shut the fuck up. 40k is a lot of people dying and holocaust definition is mass murdering.
Imagine a stadium full to the brim. That’s how many people died. This is mass murder.
Centrists, Liberals and Conservatives will find any fucking reason to call anti-semitic the fact of calling out the Zionist state of Israel. We’ve seen again and again that no argument nor facts will ever change their mind. They can suck a big fat cock and choke on it.
The holocaust was an event in WWII. 1942-1945.
CHECK YOUR CALENDAR ☝️
Hey doodoo, check the definition in the Merriam Webster dictionary, definition 3B :
a mass slaughter of people
If that is not a massive slaughter, then I am president of planet Earth.
“The”
Here, smartass, you missed this☝️ important little bit when you searched Merriam Webster. I saved a snippet for you ;)
3 a usually the Holocaust : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
Did you read down to the third entry, where it says “usually”?
Get rekt. Language is based on common practice.
The definition is industrialized mass murder… it’s not that easy.
No the definition is a mass murder.
There is a distincting between the Holocaust, the event that happened during WW2, and a holocaust, the definition for a mass murder.
Yep still fits Israel. They engineered it. They used AI to do it and look like they are not to blame. They systematically do it. All Israeli economy is now being spent on getting and fitting weapons that will tear innocent civilians into literal bits.
It’s not even enough for some people to hear holocaust survivors compare it to the holocaust. The idea of holocaust exceptionalism is now being used by Israel to justify a genocide, so excuse me for not jumping on this wagon. Palestinians are also being killed for merely being Palestinians just like the Jews. It’s an ongoing holocaust.
Hello.
I’m a german citizen and i feel obliged to educate you on this topic. I still see the remnants and aftermath of the second world war every single day, living in this history rich country.
The holocaust was ordered in the last few years of the second world war, since it was good knowledge that germany would be loosing amongst german officers. That means approximately 6 mio. People have been killed in around 3.5 years (Yes of course people also died earlier on, but let’s keep it easy). Or equal to: 40.000 people Per Day. So imagine your stadium, gone, every 24 hours. For around 3.5 years.
But thats not it. Those people got tortured, they got used for horrific “scientific” experiments, there were surgery’s held on those people without any kind of painkiller (excuse me English is not my first language).
They were treated less than animals. They had to work in the factories for Hitlers war effort and did horrific jobs, often times loosing limbs. They were extremely malnutritioned, dehydrated, and kept awake forcefully by beeing dumped full of drugs like cocaine and crack. Many times, actually most of the times, they died from exhaustion. If anything was out of the ordinary or they seemed unfit for work, they got used for experiments and if they survived that, killed.
They sometimes stayed for years in those camps.
But the crazy thing about this is. It depends on how you count. In the second world war there were around 12-18mio. Deaths. So depending on who you ask, and what counts for you as a holocaust, for example being forcefully drafted into a military as say a 14 year old and told to run into machine gun fire, you could be closer to around 2 stadiums, per day.
Yes. A stadium full is mass murder, but its not a holocaust. And statements like these will make you hard to believe for many people. I know what you are trying to say. Its a lot a a lot a lot a lot of people. Yes. But if you compare it to the holocaust, thats something whole different.
While I do agree with you on a general level, I think this is largely a discussion about how different cultures and languages use the word holocaust.
In Germany, the word Holocaust has a connotation that particularly emphasizes the exceptional nature of the event in comparison to everything that has happened before and since.
This connotation is not necessarily present in other societies, where the meaning is closer to the Greek root ‘holókaustos’ - ‘completely burnt, destroyed’ and this results in the difference between the Holocaust and a holocaust in English.
It is therefore understandable that the term holocaust is used in other languages for what is happening.
Is it helpful though? Here’s my - slightly different - take of why using the word is not necessarily wrong… but unhelpful.
I myself prefer the term “genocide” in the Israeli-Palestinian context, especially because the term holocaust in close proximity to Judaism is extremely loaded and in this context has connotations that are less about Israel’s terrible crimes and more about the somewhat conspiratorial accusation of ‘victims becoming perpetrators’ against Jews as a whole, which resonates with antisemitism and understandably gives rise to accusations of antisemitism to the point of completely losing focus of the important part of the discussion:
The state of Israel is committing extended, organized and deliberate genocide against Palestinians, out of hatred of and revenge against Hamas. This hatred and revenge against Hamas is justified. Targeting innocent Palestinians is not.
One can call this a holocaust, but this choice of word is more likely to derail the discussion and serve an entirely different agenda than the one that tries to achieve some end of the murders in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
The term was coined during WW2, and it means a mass slaughter of people.
We refer to the WW2 event as the Holocaust, the name of the historical event that invented the word.
There is a difference between the two, and trying to argue that this is not technically comparable to what happened in WW2 because not enough people died yet is a terrible thing to do.
If your ancestors that witnessed what happened during the war were witnessing what is happening today, do you think they would scoff at Palestinians because they don’t have 6 millions deaths yet or would they make the parallel between what happened then and now.
I appreciate your history course, but the kind of discourse you and many other have dilutes the word because you couldn’t be bothered to open a dictionary and look up the meaning of a word. You go around instead , lecturing people saying “akschually…” and spouting the same talking points from the IDF propaganda.
If you want a post it note for next time.
The Holocaust (event) : what happened during WW2
a holocaust (name): the mass murder of people
The term itself comes out of the Greek language, around 400 BC. It does not mean mass slaughter or genocide, it means the burning of animals.
In no terms it means anything near mass slaughter. The term though got a different meaning after the second world war, since we called the events holocaust. So, “” akschually"" referring to what happens in Palestine as a holocaust is factually wrong, since the de facto meaning of the word is a religious sacrifice of animals. In modern times the word is only used to refer to the german actions against Jewish people from 1936 to 1945.
Indicating what happens in Palestine is a holocaust is therefore only a comparison between germany 1936 and 1945 to Palestine.
Yes, it may be a genocide, it may be a mass murder/slaughter, BUT it does not even come close to what happened in germany. Therefore it downplays of the events in germany, which is not a good thing.
So, if you want a post it note
A Holocaust is a mass slaughter/genocide
But a mass slaughter/genocide is not a Holocaust.
By the way, my grandparents are still alive and first hand witnesses to what happened here, when the war ended they were 14 and 16 years old. And I have not heard them referring to what happens in Palestine as a Holocaust, neither do I expect them reacting nicely when someone would.
And tbh, wtf are we even fighting about.
Holocaust has been used and was understood at least since 1189 to describe the burning of Jews. See my comment
Edit: this is btw. not to detract from your point. The word holocaust as the deliberate burning of people was mostly used for burning jews, but also witch-burnings and similar events. Even the great fire of London was called a holocaust.
In pre-WWII parlance, calling what happens in Gaza a holocaust would absolutely be appropriate. Post WWII its usage is just… not helpful and has bad connotations that detract from what is important in the discussion.
The term is greek in origin and referred to burn offering “holókaustos” - “completely/wholely burned”, it was used in this way throughout the middle ages for fire-progroms against Jews (*) and later (1515) to decry the witch-burnings as “the new fire sacrifices” (“nova holocausta”).
* “Eodem coronationis die, circa illam sollemnitatis horam qua Filius immolabatur Patri, incceptum est in civitate Londoniae immolare Judaeos patri suo diabolo ; tantaque fuit hujus Celebris mora mysterii, ut vix altera die compleri potuerit holocaustum” - “On the same day of the coronation, about that solemn hour when the Son was sacrificed to the Father, it was begun in the city of London to sacrifice the Jews to their father the devil; and so great was the delay of this famous mystery, that the next day the holocaust could scarcely have been completed” source
I downvited just because of your opening sentence. The closing part t seems like pedantic bullshit. The holocaust is not exceptional. It’s not any more or less special than any genocide.
If it was the same severity Gaza wouldn’t be existing anymore since its whole population would be dead since around 5 months. Yes, its a mass murder. But yes, you can also distinguish between mass murder and a mass murder on an industrial scale. If you can’t distinguish, I have a few history books for you.
Lol sure go ahead and educate me you very smart German 😉
Severity has no bearing on the definition of a holocaust. Mass murder is mass murder, you know, the definition of a holocaust.
I’d say 40k death and still growing is pretty much an industrial scale. That and the razing of Palestine right now. It doesn’t happen with rocks.
This.
Additionally, the nazis built infrastructure (trains, KZs, …) just to kill Jews. They optimized it to maximize the amount of Jews to bring into KZs, they built the infamous gas showers and gas chambers to be able to kill more people more effectively.
They industrialized genocide.
While there were many cruel mass murders, this industrialization thing makes it unique so far.
Greetings from a fellow German.
Israel has literally done this though.
By all means, it’s a Palestinian holocaust.
They have built infrastructure explicitly for murdering gazans at an industrial pace?
They shipped in gazans from around Europe? Wow I hadn’t heard any of this. Is Goebbels involved, too?
I had a relationship with a German some years ago. I was told that there was some kind of collective punishment (my words) still going on because of WW2. That Germany still felt responsible, and pushed that responsibility onto the next generation, a generation with no relation to WW2 other than being born in Germany.
Why can’t the older generation let the next generation move on without inheriting their burden?
This is an agenda pushed by the right. They don’t understand the difference between guilt / responsibility for what happened and responsibility to not let it happen again.
We are not guilty nor responsible for what happened during WW2, but we are responsible to not let it ever happen again.
It is not “pushed onto us”. Its important to remember what happend in order to tell the signs and stop it from happening ever again. The narrative of “We are not responsible for it anymore and shouldn’t feel any guilt” is a narrative mostly used by german right-wing conservatists trying to erase this part of our history out of the books and education.
Because everything doable has to be done to prevent something like this from happening ever again. Feeling some guilt is a small price to pay. Sincerely, a German
My ancestor who died on the nazi operating table upon receiving unimaginable treatment would be very angry we are letting the genocide happen and using this kind of arguments to delay our response
If you think world leaders are taking policy notes from the bottom of a comment chain on Lemmy, you’re gonna have a bad time.
They don’t, but if the common people could at least stop repeating the IDF mouth piece, it would do wonders.
True, and I never said otherwise.
No you shut the fuck up. Just because something is horrible doesn’t mean you can walk around and compare it to the Holocaust. You don’t seem to grasp the absolutely inconceivable horror that the Holocaust was.
What Israel is doing is wrong and terrible, it’s probably fascist and unjustified, but it is not the Holocaust. Comparing Israel’s actions to the Holocaust taunts the victims and invalidates your point which is especially bad because it’s an important point to make.
Holocaust is a word for a mass murder you dunce. It was invented during WW2.
It does not invalidate my point, it just makes you bunch of illiterate fucks high on your own farts.
What is happening is a holocaust, by definition. Now go back in the dog house. Bad dog.
And what do you think will happen if we let them? It would be much worse than the actual Holocaust. Past torture victims make the worst torturers
Oh of course! There aren’t 6 million Palestinians in Gaza so we can fucking murder them all and it’ll be totally fine! Still not 6 mil, amirite?
You sound mad, but ‘the holocaust’ was a specific event in wwII. 1942-1945.
All holocausts are genocides, not all genocides are holocausts.
Hope this helps you 🫶
I vote to name this one a holocaust too :) after all it has a lot in common, especially being killed en masse. But boooooo, we must have the EXACT SAME GAS CHAMBERS.
You can confuse historical events with current events all you like.
It won’t be making me look like a disconnected stooge, and that’s fine with me 🫶
What’s the difference? (Serious)
What’s the difference?
The dates. (Seriously)
It’s 2024. The Holocaust (a specific genocide) ended 79 years ago.
So again, all holocausts are genocides, but not all genocides are holocausts.
I don’t make words or their meanings.
I hope this helps 🫶
That’s holocaust exceptionalism though. And Israel uses this to justify their genocide. That person didn’t make up these words or meanings. They just looked them up. Words don’t just mean things in a specific year only and then never again anything else.
Let’s call it Holocaust 2.0 though? Is that okay? We can slap a year on it too if you like.
Well yeah… Obviously THE Holocaust isn’t happening again… But A holocaust is… And sadly it’s being perpetrated by the victims of THE Holocaust
Wow, 40k over the course of 10 months in a heavily populated area where 2 million people live?
It’s almost like it’s a fucking war and not a targeted extermination.
I would call it an extermination heavily obfuscated by layers of plausible deniability. Too many deliberate war crimes have been committed against civilians at this point to see it as good faith warfare against Hamas. Denial of food and water to the area are probably the worst offenses but there are many.
Good points.
That we know about. That made it to a place the bodies could be counted. Nobody has peeked into the rubble in most places yet.
Yes, Yes, No, Yes, Yes, Yes, No
Lol and that’s why it’s bullshit, because nothing is “super simple”, you bunch of terminally online twats. You wouldn’t know nuance if it reached out of your Instagram post and slapped you in the face. Go ahead, tell me to eat glass like last time.
eat glass pweeease owo
everything is complicated, it’s true. drinking water is super complicated. if you try to just drink straight h20 you will strip your body of electrolytes and shit will become very unpleasant. don’t get me started on colors. we don’t even know what colors ARE.
but there are subjects where the simple understanding is EXTREMELY functional, and will rarely lead you TOO far astray. like ‘drink water, preferably clean water’. if you dont do this you die.
similarly: genocide bad. rape bad. rapists bad. genocideers bad. if you don’t do this, LOTS of people die, and its partially on you.
yes, there is a more complex nuanced understanding (which IMO makes the palestinians look better and the zionists look orders of magnitude worse than the nation of shiro ishi clones they appear to be from the surface), but the simple one effectively functions for nearly any intent or purpose, and if you’re not doing therapy for a palestinian person, or trying to decide what treatment would be appropriate for a zionist if it was capable of just stopping/surrendering (which it is not, there’s only one way to stop this after letting it get this far, and we should do it before more innocents die), you really don’t need more than the simplest “genocide bad, rape bad, murdering children bad” that a literal child could understand.
It’s all nuance until you start criticizing a politician’s stance on the matter. Then it’s we don’t have room for nuance because:
- You will let the fascists win
- We are too constrained to do anything
- There are two choices in the 2020 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
- A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
- Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
- Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.
I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?
Holy shit now I know why I have politics blocked on my main account. You guys need a walk. No, no a hike. No actually pilgrimage to Jerusalem on foot on the trail of crusaders
The shittest shitfiesta I have ever seen on Lemmy and I wouldn’t be surprised if hundreds of rdrama degenerates were typing energetically with their fat greasy fingers under the link to this post as we speak
Also
- Brotherly war is bad
- Russians are awesome
- “Russian world” is a dangerous mania
- Russophobia is real
- Ukraine will be free
- Russia was under brutal dictators before
- Russia is under brutal dictator again
Ok, more whataboutism! People make me sick.
Oops, turns out I am biased.
That’s just me speaking about another conflict without it ever affecting this one.
The word “whataboutism” is heavily overused.
Has Russia ever been under a system that isn’t a brutal dictatorship?
Actually yes, though normally under the same people that were brutal dictators in other times. Late Lenin-early Stalin, early Khrushchev, late Gorbachev, and even early Putin himself.
Do brutal dictatorship systems before they became brutal dictatorships count?
The Russian people are the greatest victims of the Russian system they perpetuate
I know so many cool Russians and Ukrainians personally, it’s abhorrent what’s happening because of Russia’s dictatorship, within and without its borders.
Saying Jews are awesome is not a valid statement, because just like every group some of them are awesome, some are neutral, and some are awful. It should say something like “Jews are regular people”
“Jews are like everybody else”
“Jews are non-monolithicaly awesome”
I’ll let it slide honestly, underscores like “the Larry Davids of the world are lit” given the rest makes clear “any genocidal maniac is evil and neither religion nor past atrocities against their ancestors will shield them from criticism”
And people, in general, are awesome ergo…
That’s not what “valid” means. This is an opinion, so you don’t get to declare it invalid. You are free to disagree, though.
Saying Jews are awesome is not a valid statement
It’s a statement of opinion, which is perfectly valid, you just needed to say something because you don’t like Jews…
if you can say “Humans are awesome”, which you can whilst everyone knows the caveats to that, you can say Jews are awesome.
Humans suck. Worst sentient species I’ve ever met.
Presumably, the ones committing war crimes are not awesome.
the ones committing war crimes are not doing so “as jews” though, they are doing so because they are horrible humans who happened to be born jewish.
I feel we’re really ratfucking this, but how about just “Many Jews Are Awesome”
Doesn’t that cover most if not all of the various objections?
Replace it with two lines:
JEWS ARE PEOPLE
PALESTINIANS ARE ALSO PEOPLEJEWS ARE PEOPLE PALESTINIANS ARE ALSO PEOPLE
I feel like - while well-intended - the “also” here is kind of accommodating the belief of dimwits that this is somehow up for debate.
What about everyone else? This sign needs to be perfectly neutral. I won’t sleep until it is reduced down to one word: “People”.
PEOPLE ARE
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
PEOPLE.
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:PEOPLE.
Fixed
ALL
LIVES MATTERPEOPLE ARE AWESOME
^Nailed it.
Don’t forget to put back the hammer.
Lets remove the Holocaust is happening again too.
Right wings idiots have been using that shit for too long to water it down.
Genocide does not equal holocaust.
Genocide has happened and been happening somewhere new almost every 5 years and continuously all over the world so let’s not pretend it’s something new with Israel and Palestine either lol.
Some people are also people
Yeah, I would absolutely expect someone with a sign of this style to call every single instance of genocide “The Holocaust”. That’s precisely the level of historical literacy I’m used to seeing from middle-class weirdos who buy these things.
I’m used to seeing from middle-class weirdos who buy these things.
so what kind of weirdo are you having to somehow felt the need to put the world “middle-class” in here?
I feel like you’re getting a bit semantic. A holocaust vs THE holocaust are pretty close and the meaning gets across.
