@paninid But also "memory culture" and the fetishization of German (and European guilt). Not to mention PR for Israel. (It took a very long time for the other groups targeted by the Nazis to be recognized by Holocaust museums and it was very begrudgingly at first.) It's more than just documentation. It's not like we don't know about the atrocities of slavery either. It's also not unlike how the US gave refuge to Nazi scientists while pretending that eugenics was only something the Nazis did.
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Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 10:23:07 JST Coach Pāṇini ® The reason there’s no equivalent of the @auschwitzmuseum for Native Americans is most of the genocide occurred before the #IndustrialRevolution resulted in lots of photographic evidence.
Bill repeated this.
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