mllemusketeer:

fierceawakening:

mllemusketeer:

mllemusketeer:

fromchaostocosmos:

tom-at-the-farm:

Things to consider before making a woke Holocaust reference for current events:

• are over 6 million Jewish people dead via a concentrated extermination campaign

If the answer is “no,” just shut up. Just literally shut the fuck up.

• are millions of Romani people dead via a

  concentrated extermination campaign

If the answer is also no then also just shut the fuck up

Hard disagree, y’all are full of shit. We aren’t there yet. We’re headed there. FAST. Sure, it might be a different ethnicity being targeted, but if you’re freaking about that now, you’re missing the point to a terrifying degree.  This is the time we freak out and actually look at the parallels, instead of doing “how dare you compare oppressions” performative virtue. How do you think this started? 

Actual Holocaust survivors also think you’re full of shit, btw.

We must all hang together or most assuredly, we shall hang separately–and I mean that just as literally as it was meant when it was originally said. We need not to go, “Well, how DARE you compare this thing that’s happening to the thing that happened to US before because our experience was worse and this trivializes it, get off my lawn”, or each and every one of our groups will end up on gallows. Make no mistake, that’s what this administration wants. Do not think for a second that these “tender age shelters” are anything but internment camps–and given the stories of abuse coming out of them right now, concentration camps becomes a more and more accurate moniker by the moment. Do not believe for a second it will stop here.

They will do whatever they can get away with.

By the time these comparisons become 100% accurate, there will be too many lives lost for them to be useful. 

Secondary reason this makes me real grumpy: we focus on the Holocaust as something that is specially horrific, and at least in my schooling, this was to the exculsion of other horrific things that happened during WWII, including the Rape of Nanjing, which is part of my family history (whether great-grandfather died then, or at the hands of the Communist Party is still in question).

Putting one thing above the others, one thing that should never be compared to others, is a huge mistake.

We’ve had genocide after genocide after genocide just since then, and I think this “don’t compare” attitude doesn’t do anyone any good because it blinds us to the horrors of the others, gives us an excuse not to interfere or freak out, because it’s not as bad. Are millions of Jews/Romani dead? No? Carry on!

Millions of brown and black bodies? eh whatevs

Similar policies building momentum that can lead to those millions of bodies very soon? omg stop comparing these things, neoliberal

Never again seems to only apply to Europeans.

Yep. There are also a couple groups the op and first commenter didn’t even mention (*coughdisabledpeoplecough*) and… if you’re using “what happened to x group” as your barometer there’s something Not Right about leaving some out.

Like, the separation of children and parents actually fits under the international law definition of genocide.

It’s not that much of a reach.

Now they’re going for indefinite detention. 

Meanwhile, we’re probably going to see food prices go up, and access to discounted food programs go down, we’re seeing disability services being cut, we’re seeing medical care being cut, we’re seeing queer rights undermined… all of these things lead down a similar path. Just because the demographics are different doesn’t mean the end result isn’t the same.