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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 06:35:11 JST Børge

   On this UN remembrance day for the victims of the #Holocaust I want to say that we, the world community, made a grave mistake when we focused "all" our attention on the 6m Jewish victims. Ask anyone who was killed in the Holocaust, and they will say the Jews. They'll probably know the number. And that is great! But it's a tragedy that all the other victims has all but been forgotten among the general public! We could've easily lifted up all victims, and now it seems we're paying for not doing so

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 06:38:22 JST Børge

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     The systematic murdering of 6 million Jews was horrific beyond words! That does not mean that the murders of other groups of people, just for being born a certain way, was any less tragic!

     The millions of Slavs, Romani, disabled people, queer people and transgender people the nazis systematically executed where just as human, just as worthy of our mourning and our remembrance.

     We should lift them all up, remember them all, equally, without forgetting the difference in numbers, of course.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 06:59:00 JST Børge

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     Maybe, just maybe, if we had given just a fraction of the attention that we have given the Jewish victims of the Holocaust to these other groups of victims, we would give them today just a fraction of the good will that we give the state of Israel, and would not be so eager to fall for the same hatred that Hitler used against these other groups again.

     If we really have to let Israel do everything because of the Holocaust, why can't we let trans people do anything?

     Never again. For all?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 06:59:02 JST Børge

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     The price we pay for this, it seems to me, is the tragic irony in Romani, queer people and especially transgender people being hated so much that it seems to be a huge part of the current resurgence of the far right fascists around the world – it feels like Hitler only took a break and is now again conquering the world, with the same scapegoats as before – while at the same time Israel is allowed to do its own genocide partly because we can't criticize the victims of the Holocaust! It's insane

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 07:04:12 JST Børge

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     Oh, btw, if we let this common hatred against trans people, queer people, darker skinned people within our borders (Romani and otherwise) and people who are "a burden on our wellfare/institutions/health care" (people with disabilities and bad health) again be a part of the launch pad that gives the extreme right extreme power…

     then, even though they (mostly) seemingly love Israel and Jewish people today.

     They will come for them again.

     It is just a matter of time.

     #Holocaust

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 07:06:38 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     @forteller FSVO "we".

     When I was on a council committee organising HMD events the other victims of the Holocaust, and other genocides (eg Rwanda), *were* given attention. YMMV I guess, depending on where you live.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 07:06:38 JST Børge

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     • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

     @TimWardCam Of course, that will always be the case. But is there anywhere in the world where asking a 100 random people on the street just as many of them will mention other groups of victims as will mention the Jews? I don't know! But I doubt it.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 07:17:03 JST Børge

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     Just in November last year we got our first (I'm almost certain) memorial for the Norwegian Roma who where killed during the Holocaust.

     That is very late.

     There are 62 names on it. 66 where deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

     Do we even have memorials for Slavs, for queer people, for trans people? I haven't heard of it.

     #roma #holocaust

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 22:51:25 JST Børge

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     • Pixelcode 🇺🇦

     @pixelcode I have never complained about that. On the contrary I explicitly said that it is good it is remembered by most people.

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     Pixelcode 🇺🇦 (pixelcode@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 22:51:26 JST Pixelcode 🇺🇦

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     @forteller Who exactly do you think you are to complain to any extent about the remembrance of the 6 million Jews exterminated in the Holocaust, by far the largest group of victims, on Holocaust Remembrance Day? Your childishly naïve perception of Holocaust remembrance only displays your immense lack of education.