robomatic - as with Martin, I think you are reading your own agenda into a post that never said what you wanted to imply it did.

Steve never blamed the Jews for the Holocaust. For you to imply such is a flagrant libel. Steve has made the same point that I did. Humanity has been insufferably cruel to humanity down through the centuries. Jews don't have a monopoly on that suffering. Some of us can see past Jewishness, & can see the hatefulness in all of that suffering.

The commemoration of Auschwitz IS, largely, a commemoration of Jewish suffering. It's not lessened by that. The problem, though, is exactly that which you & Martin are trying to promote. "No-one's suffering can ever be as much as our suffering!" Now, you who has not suffered as they did, justify your dismissal of all that other suffering, that you have also never experienced.

I don't believe you can. I'd like to believe that, if you think about the impression you've given to others, you wouldn't want to because it isn't what you meant.