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Tim Walz Accused of 'Anti-Semitism' for Master's Thesis Saying Holocaust Was Not Unique
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It wasn't unique, it wasn't a "one off". The unique framing appeals to conservatives as it feeds into exceptionalism and impunity. "We're special!" It's those people who only care about stuff when it happens to them. Same as with abortions and "The only moral abortion is my abortion".
Fundamentally, this is evidence of the failure to generalize learning (what learning is for), a grand failure of intelligence.
I disagree with the premise, the Holocaust was unique. It was unique in its effectiveness, it was a meticulously planned machinery of death the world has never seen before or after. The Jews weren't just killed where they could be found, they were caught, cataloged, transported, sorted and then murdered as effectively as possible. Death on a well planned assembly line.
** Does all that make it a quantifier, was this genocide more "genocidy" then others?
No, just that the way it was carried out was unique, no more no less, but to deny that is just revisionism. **
That's just a disgusting take just someone very privileged is able to have.
I have pointed at exactly this sort of quantifier as being wrong already in my original comment.
Edit: Really, the above comment gets up votes for alleging something I explicitly spoke out against in my first comment? Guess it's correct what people say about .ml
There were once 100 million Natives living on the two American continents.
Most estimates (and all recent ones) put that number around 50 mln, the vast majority of whom died from disease, rather similarly to how the black death from asia killed the majority of europe and the middle east two hundred years prior.
Did it enable colonialism? Yes. Was it meticulously planned? No.
This is genocide denial.
They were rounded up into camps, the US army brought the buffalo to near extinction to starve the natives, scalp hunting! It was systematic and deliberate.
So the unique thing about the Holocaust was the involvement of IBM and Bayer/IG Farben?
Ok yeah I can buy that.
Sure whatever you want to believe, I gave up on this thread having any sort of constructive argument or insight. Didn't even have to be valuable insight, but there's nothing here to be found.