This person says that "jews were beaten (and avoided, ratted out) by their neighbours" and all of a sudden that's an anti-semitic statement? Just for the record - Jews were also hidden and saved by their neighbours. But the first statement is in no way anti-semitic, it rightly points out that it wasn't just the government who hated on Jews, it was the ordinary citizens who picked up on the hate, too. In fact ordinary citizens were instrumental in spreading the hate.
Really, it's not this post that's the issue - it's only bad within the context of her other posts, because she's comparing being a republican in 2021 with being a Jew in 1940s Germany, which is one hell of a stretch. But even so, reading this particular post as anti-semitic, even in the larger conspiracy-nutcase context, is one hell of a stretch as well. The post only works if she is saying anti-semitism is real and is a bad thing.
...because she's comparing being a republican in 2021 with being a Jew in 1940s Germany, which is one hell of a stretch.
Not just a stretch, it's incredibly insulting. I'm honestly floored by reading people here unable to understand why such a statement would have you fired - by Disney, of all companies.
Hey, I'm not saying the comparison isn't both misguided and borderline whataboutism when put in context. I'm just saying it's not actually anti-semitic, as it requires belief that the Holocaust happened, and that it was wrong.
The post says the holocaust was worse than people think it was, how is that trivializing it? Sure, you could soundly argue a false equivalence. She was dumb to make the comparison. But, that doesn't means she was trivializing the holocaust. It only means she was overstating the current situation.
Which post are you referring to? The one in question is where she compares modern day conservatives to Jews in 1930s/40s Germany, being rounded up for mass imprisonment, forced labour and eventual murder. The implication being that getting banned from Twitter is basically the same as the holocaust.
I think you mean collusion to effect a monopoly ban from access to credit and banking services and federally protected communications platforms, widespread blacklisting and denying of livelihood as expressed here. And let us not forget, unconstitutional impeachment for the sole objective of disentrancement in upcoming elections, and calls to round them up into camps for programming!
Anyone someone fans the flames of some a handful of subset groups grudges and directs their anger at a scapegoat 'enemy', espec
I think your wording is a little extreme, but the general point behind it is sound. I believe they earned what they're getting, but I don't believe in the extent to which things are happening. I don't have a problem with Twitter/FB/etc censoring them. But, I also believe payment processors and hosting companies should not get in the middle of where money goes as long as it's legal. But, I don't know exactly where lines should be drawn as these companies do have rights and political affiliation is not a prot
I'm referring to the one linked in the summary. My point is that she is talking about how bad the Holocaust is, while equating the two. She isn't trivializing the holocaust, because she at least appears to attempt to give it proper weight. What she is doing is overstating the current events in comparison to the holocaust. I'm not saying her statement shouldn't still bother people, just arguing against the statement that it trivializes the holocaust. You could argue it's a fine line, or semantics, but it's a
She didn't claim equivalence to the holocaust she claimed parallels to the social and political climate which led to humans down the path to the holocaust. One would hope that it is acceptable to do so at some point BEFORE we reach anything which could credibly be compared to the holocaust!
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This person says that "jews were beaten (and avoided, ratted out) by their neighbours" and all of a sudden that's an anti-semitic statement?
Just for the record - Jews were also hidden and saved by their neighbours. But the first statement is in no way anti-semitic, it rightly points out that it wasn't just the government who hated on Jews, it was the ordinary citizens who picked up on the hate, too. In fact ordinary citizens were instrumental in spreading the hate.
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Wait, is that all there is to this story? Do people not know how Anne Frank and her family were discovered?
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Really, it's not this post that's the issue - it's only bad within the context of her other posts, because she's comparing being a republican in 2021 with being a Jew in 1940s Germany, which is one hell of a stretch. But even so, reading this particular post as anti-semitic, even in the larger conspiracy-nutcase context, is one hell of a stretch as well. The post only works if she is saying anti-semitism is real and is a bad thing.
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...because she's comparing being a republican in 2021 with being a Jew in 1940s Germany, which is one hell of a stretch.
Not just a stretch, it's incredibly insulting. I'm honestly floored by reading people here unable to understand why such a statement would have you fired - by Disney, of all companies.
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Hey, I'm not saying the comparison isn't both misguided and borderline whataboutism when put in context. I'm just saying it's not actually anti-semitic, as it requires belief that the Holocaust happened, and that it was wrong.
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It's antisemitic because it trivializes the Holocaust.
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Which post are you referring to? The one in question is where she compares modern day conservatives to Jews in 1930s/40s Germany, being rounded up for mass imprisonment, forced labour and eventual murder. The implication being that getting banned from Twitter is basically the same as the holocaust.
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I think you mean collusion to effect a monopoly ban from access to credit and banking services and federally protected communications platforms, widespread blacklisting and denying of livelihood as expressed here. And let us not forget, unconstitutional impeachment for the sole objective of disentrancement in upcoming elections, and calls to round them up into camps for programming!
Anyone someone fans the flames of some a handful of subset groups grudges and directs their anger at a scapegoat 'enemy', espec
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She didn't claim equivalence to the holocaust she claimed parallels to the social and political climate which led to humans down the path to the holocaust. One would hope that it is acceptable to do so at some point BEFORE we reach anything which could credibly be compared to the holocaust!
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Not when it's a group we don't really like that's doing it. ;-)