the amount of completely inaccurate and borderline offensive versions of holocaust history ive seen…
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the amount of completely inaccurate and borderline offensive versions of holocaust history ive seen lately, mostly for the repulsive purpose of defending western civilization, makes me feel like physically sick sometimes lmao. i can not believe i just saw someone say that unlike other genocides there were no economic incentives for the holocaust. im going to fucking scream. i hate to be this way but please if you never fucking studied this just shut the fuck up. cause its really obvious a lot of you guys havent. jsyk i think maybe around 15% or less of property and assets stolen from jews was ever returned
the causes of the holocaust can not be vulgarly reduced to economic factors by any means, but to differentiate it from genocides perpetuated by western countries in africa, latin america, and asia that brutally murdered and enslaved hundreds of millions of people through colonialism and imperialism by saying that the nazis were uniquely irrational is to reject to continuities between western civilization and fascism, and the violence at the heart of western civilization. its a childlike understanding of rationality and irrationality that also implicitly agrees there is something rational about destroying an entire people, if they have a resource you want. its also absurdly ignorant of the many ways that land theft and accumulation of capital and forced labor featured into the holocaust, the entire organization of its facilitation, just basically any economic history about nazi germany and its policies. and its hypocritical on a philosophical level