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I still think it is wildly offensive to treat genocide in Gaza like "any other issue." To prioritize genocide less than other issues because it effects you personally less is a political failing in a way that is not true for other issues. Genocide is the worst of crimes against humanity, everyone agrees with this.

I wish people would imagine their words in the context of the Nazi holocaust. What I mean is, imagine this exact race except the genocide we are arguing about is not of Gazans but of Jews, Romani, Slavs, communists, queer people, and disabled people. Everything else is the same, the domestic issues are the same, the candidates are the same, the electoral map is the same. But it's the Nazi holocaust happening instead.

Would you be saying the same things? Would you be telling people to vote for Kamala? Genuinely. Everyone got mad at me before for this but actually would you? No one actually answered this question at the time.

 

Talking about the current genocide in comparison to the Jewish genocide during WWII makes me think the uncomfortable thought that American involvement in WWII was only because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and if Japan hadn't attacked then America would've stayed out of it. We have always been an incredibly selfish nation.

 

*seething, twitching* and at the end of the day, isn't the first woman nominee kind of a bigger deal?

 

Unironically the best reason to vote for Kamala

 

Yeah I mean I’m pretty sure I’ve seen polls of public opinion at the time and they were against taking Jewish refugees

 

also Nazis got their ideology from Americans. pretty well documented

US only stepped in because the Soviets would've had complete control of Europe if they took down the Nazis without British support. afterward we rewrote this into a hero narrative. ending German fascism was just a byproduct of cutting off European communism

 

Fdr turned away refugees who died

 

I thought this was well documented that we turned away Jewish refugees from Europe who were later killed

 

There's a lot of academic research and debate on this topic i'm pretty sure. I think generally FDR was itching to get in and looking for an excuse to do so...I don't know if simply finding out about the concentration/extermination camps would have been enough to do it. I think there were already rumors/heresay/intel that pointed to something going on regarding Jews and such by 1941, but I haven't read deep into it to know who knew what and when and with what certainty and etc.

 

Israel also did this

 

some of y’all