@toiletpaper@shitposter.world@icedquinn@blob.cat@sun@shitposter.world whether is was 100 or 1 million or 10 million has no bearing on whether it's ok for other people from the same ethnic group to invade, settle and then commit genocide against people in another part of the world
@anemone@toiletpaper@sun its really wild the USA agreed to help slavs against such a war of aggression, then didn't, and turn around an enable a blatant war of aggression somewhere else.
@toiletpaper@anemone@icedquinn You're right about some of this but arguing about the specific number is a loser argument, it's too charged to ever be productive. All I really know is that some people were saying insanely high numbers earlier and it got ratcheted down over time to a specific number decades before it was decided that now this number is absolutely inarguably the right one. Maybe it really is, who knows.
> arguing about the specific number is a loser argument
I disagree. I think any evidence which can be used to demonstrate the claims are more propaganda than reality goes a long way to knee-capping the cultural currency of their perpetual whining. They don't deserve the special treatment they're receiving.
As far as victims of genocide go, indigenous people in the Americas (and elsewhere) are far higher on the list of those who deserve due deference, especially when there's eye witness accounts like Bartolomé de las Casas who put the number far in excess of "6 million", and ostensibly at the hands of Abrahamic religious ideology.
@toiletpaper@anemone@icedquinn The number of Indians dead as a result of European expansion into the Americas is undoubtedly an order of magnitude greater than the Holocaust but even in that arena there's a LOT of bullshit calculation even before you get into how culpable Europeans were for spreading new diseases unwittingly, which made up the majority of the deaths.
I'm not even referring to the diseases. I'm simply talking about overt deliberate massacres. If you add disease to the number then it's off the charts. But honestly, if you had to ask people to name how many indigenous Americans were deliberately exterminated to make way for European settlement, how many would even have a clue? It has nothing to do with facts. It has to do with several generations of deliberate psychological operations by ZOG.
My man what are you doing arguing with someone whose nick is "wight power" who's arguing that Jews collaborated to make the Holocaust happen and wanted it all along.
@anemone@icedquinn@toiletpaper@taylan the reason it kind of matters is simply that people go apeshit if you question the number, nothing more or less. yes the threshold for "this shouldn't justify another genocide" is way way WAY lower than six million
@sun@shitposter.world@toiletpaper@shitposter.world@taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org@icedquinn@blob.cat there's no real reason to argue about it. A lot of people were exterminated for their ethnicity, whether or not it was 6 million or somewhat less doesn't really matter rhetorically. it was still a lot, and it's something that shouldn't be repeated, especially not by the same ethnic group that were previously victims. The idea that the holocaust justifies attempting to do the same thing to another group is one of the most depraved ideas the human species has come up with.
@taylan@sun@icedquinn@anemone@toiletpaper It raises lots of questions about how we perceive numbers and events, and especially how we view these through the lens of permitted exceptions. It also reminds us of which sources we trust to tell us the truth.
> people go apeshit if you question the number, nothing more or less.
Have you considered that this may be because it's one of the most well studied events in recent European history and the only people who are still obsessed with trying to revise what happened are those with certain political views on Jews?
By the way,
> The threshold for "never again" is much less than 6 million but also they are insidiously trying to convince people it was 6 million for some reason
Make it make sense please.
Also,
The Holocaust could have literally not happened and it would make no difference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas are basically Arab Nazis wishing to exterminate Jews because their holy book says so. Blow them off the fucking orbit.
The Holocaust could have not happened and it would make no difference to the fact that "Jews are running the world" conspiracy theories are bat shit retarded because the vast majority of Jews are at most middle class and even the few Jews who are part of the "world elite" are westerners with no say in China, Russia, or the Arab or Turkic world.
The Holocaust could have never happened and it would make no difference to the fact that I want to kick in the teeth of people who paint Jews as gay pedophile demons because no ethnic group deserves being treated that way except for the French.
@taylan@icedquinn@anemone@toiletpaper that’s not why people go apeshit on this one specific thing but yes people want to revise it down are often antisemitic. People go apeshit because it’s achieved mythical justification for any and all bad behavior
@taylan@anemone@icedquinn@toiletpaper gonna be honest here, lying about tons of other shit has had a bad effect on the taboo against questioning the big one, I mean doing evil shit is already just wrong but tactically it was a mistake too
> Hamas are basically Arab Nazis wishing to exterminate Jews because their holy book says so.
Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza, after being funded and enabled by the Israeli government as an opposition against the PLO (previous democratically elected government). Moreover the Zionists justify their colonial project, which started with violent terrorism in the early 20th century, and their genocide of Palestinians, on the very same basis (ie. their holy book). It's the same justification which was (and is) also used by Christinanity through it's existence.
> Jews are running the world
To which other nations do the majority of western countries export billions in annual tax money (apart from Ukraiine which is also run by NeoNazis)? Which other nations are allowed to conduct extensive and well funded influence operations in every western government? Which other nations citizens make up the majority of C level executives of the most powerful financial and tech companies on earth, to say nothing of the universities, media and entertainment industries? Which other nations have specific legislation to protect their citizens from completely valid and factually correct criticism?
Einstein, Hannah Arendt and many others already pointed this shit out 3/4 of a century ago, and yet brainwashed historically ignorant NPC retards like you are still claiming it's racist to agree with them.
"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine."
Herut, Irgun, etc, were subsequently consolidated into a single party and rebranded as Likud which is currently lead by Netanyahu, armed with the tax dollars and enabled with the military collaboration a majority of western nations. But we're the Nazis for point it out? Get fucked!