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    3 months ago

    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 🫶

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      3 months ago

      What’s the difference? (Serious)

      edit: nm I looked it up… The term genocide was created in 1944 to define the systematic nature of the eradication of the Jews.

      hol·o·caust noun 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. “a nuclear holocaust”

      I would say it’s fair game to call what Israel is doing to the Palestinians another Holocaust. Not all holocausts are genocides though… For instance the citizens of Hiroshima died in a nuclear holocaust, but it wasn’t a genocide. THE Holocaust was just a term given arbitrarily to what happened to the Jews, and there’s no reason the term can’t be used again. If Israel is systematically eradication the Palestinian people then we can call it a genocide. If they are doing so with “destruction and slaughter on a mass scale” we can also call it a holocaust.

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        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 🫶

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          3 months ago

          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

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            3 months ago

            The victim’s of the Holocaust are dead, that’s what being a victim of a genocide looks like.

            The current genocide is being perpetrated by the descendants of the survivors of the Holocaust. Likely being seen as victims on the world stage for the last 75 years emboldened them to forget the horrors their parents and grand parents lived through.

            In truth, genocide is a facet of human society, just like war and famine.

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              I think we can take the poster with the grain of salt it’s pretty obviously intended to come with