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Mosby

(16,168 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2020, 09:57 AM Mar 2020

The natural evolution of a bad analogy

I'm not surprised, just the other day a poster here used the term "final solution" to describe trump's approach to Democrats.




For starters, the choice of Anne as a sole symbol of our tragedy is problematic and in many ways exposes a bias, favoring educated, secular, city-dwelling Jews from Western Europe over the majority of the Holocaust's victims who were nothing like that.

But worse is this: the Holocaust doesn't begin or end in the Extermination Camps and the infamous gas chambers. In the USSR alone, some 1.3 million Jews were murdered via much more rudimentary means, being shot to death or burned alive.

But starvation and disease were just as much a part of the genocide apparatus as the gas chambers and killing ditches were. Anne Frank's death was not a case of criminal negligence, it was murder.

Three more tweets.
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