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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 21:41:12 JST Aral Balkan

   Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.

   What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.

   Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.

   (Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)

   #mastodonDotSocial #israel #holocaust #germany #Nazis #Holocaust #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade/114697845822637992

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 22:22:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tiflosion ざわ。。。

     @Tiflosion Please let all the dictionaries know too:

     - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/holocaust
     - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holocaust
     - https://www.oed.com/dictionary/holocaust_n

     (The meaning you quote is historical. Latter usages of the term do not carry the connotation of sacrifice.)

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     Tiflosion ざわ。。。 (tiflosion@rivals.space)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 22:22:08 JST Tiflosion ざわ。。。

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     @aral stop calling every genocide a "holocaust", an holocaust is a sacrifice, an offering, it's the total opposite of a genocide

     The jews were not genocided as a some sort of sacrificial ritual, and neither are the palestinians

     That's why we call the genocide of the jews "Shoah" which means "disaster", and we should use the same vocabulary when speaking of the palestinian genocide, it's not a sacrifice, it's a genocide

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     Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 23:19:40 JST Alx 🐈

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     @aral

     Language essentialism is a big sign of
     Nazism/Fascism. As per Umberto Eco:

     "Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.[...] [E]lements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show"