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Originally Posted by JackIsBack
What was that excuse again used at the Nuremberg trial - “I was just following orders”.
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Turns out people who compare this with Nazi Germany have a lot more fans in hateful racist and anti-semites than Holocaust survivors. I guess you are the company you keep, in some respects.
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“You can’t imagine how much that upset me. This comparison is hateful. We must all rise up against this ignominy,” Holocaust survivor Joseph Szwarc said Sunday during a ceremony commemorating victims of antisemitic and racist acts by the French state, which collaborated with Adolf Hitler’s regime.
“I wore the star, I know what that is, I still have it in my flesh,” Szwarc, who was deported from France by the Nazis, said with tears in his eyes. “It is everyone’s duty to not allow this outrageous, antisemitic, racist wave to pass over us.”
Historian and former Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld also took aim at the analogy, stressing Monday that “the yellow star was a symbol of death that excluded Jews from society and marked them for extermination, while vaccines, on the other hand, save lives.” To equate the two, he told The Associated Press, is an “odious” comparison that serves to trivialize the yellow star.
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https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ho...-nazi-horrors/
I’m all for letting idiots wave their little selfish little idiot flags. It’s all very entertaining. I don’t, however, agree with allowing the persistent trivialisation of the Holocaust. You might as well be denying it’s existence to act like anything you experience today is anything like it. It’s truly disgusting.