Kinda insulting... Kinda. Weak. He can't say it is insulting victims of the holocaust, because then he'd be speaking on behalf of them, which is a no-no. So he implies that it sorta, coulda, maybe, in a roundabout way be insulting them, because he doesn't want want to validate that it was very clearly an insult aimed directly at him. No wonder he simped for Trump. "He didn't order anyone illegally deported to a concentration camp while I was there, so he is actually an alright guy. Hawk tuah!"
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Bill Maher calls Larry David’s satire of his Trump dinner ‘kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews’
In a TS tweet. The POTUS went online and tweeted a message to another head of state. he even used some all caps, as if Putin is actually going to take it seriously. America is so fucked. What's he going to do next? Throw down a Tiktok challenge?
Australians see very little benefit from this because the LNG is extracted by foreign companies which don't pay any taxes. Just another political rort.
I have, you are missing the point. You seem to be suggesting that what is happening in Gaza is dispicable but can't be labelled as a "holocaust" nor, arguably, a "genocide". So this is a semantic argument based on your personal perception of the word holocaust and genocide. Do you have a more appropriate word for what is happening in Gaza? Unfortunately "Gazans are being treated despicably" probably doesn't capture the whole 50000+ people dead and more dying due to military strikes, starvation and lack of clean water and medical care. See the funny thing with English is that when we don't have a word for something we borrow one, or use one that describes a similar situation... But, yeah the important thing is that no body should compare this documented genocide with any other genocide especially not the worst one ever documented in detail.
Juxtapose means to put things side by side to compare them. I said document it, call it out and prevent it. That's not for scientific reasons, its very much political. How many more Gazans need to be killed before it's enough like the holocaust for someone to do something to stop it? We compare these things because they look similar. Not to trivialise, but to understand.
I disagree. The holocaust is documented as the worse genocide in history by several metrics. Any other mass killing should be juxtaposed to it (and others) to see the similarities and differences. If a nation begins to kill people under the same ideology that birthed the holocaust ( or any other genocide) it should be documented, called out and prevented from doing so, so we don't get another holocaust or holodomor or Cambodian genocide or Rwandan genocide... If we hold the holocaust as something unique and separate, we make the mistake that it can not happen again. Europeans in Australia spent about 150 years trying to wipe outs it's indigenous population. ~84% population decline. Systematic destruction of culture. Policies of displacement, family destruction and to breed them out. This was not the holocaust. But the similarities are there. We should absolutely be looking at what is happening in Palestine/Israel to see if the same rationale used for the Holocaust is in play.
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