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Thread #171697   Message #4153579
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
24-Sep-22 - 08:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Subject: RE: BS: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Steve, You may want the word "Holocaust" to have one meaning, but just try enforcing it. I don't happen to think that European Jews can corner the market on that kind of genocide and misery. As has been noted (or I noticed somewhere else in my reading while working on this) the Armenians slaughtered by Turks at the turn of the last century have used the word also. And in other corners of the world (to say nothing of the slaughter of the native populations in the US) many may have dibs on that term. And quibbling about "widely" or not, is up to you. I stand by my earlier statements.

There are way more White Supremacists here in the US than I ever thought possible—but Trump open that Pandora's box and they came pouring out. What they kept privately to themselves before they openly reveal in public now. It is astonishing.