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Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by theRhenn
I'm sorry, do you knowwhat a holocaust is, theRhenn? It's not a word you can just use for any old thing.
You're comparing spoken ignorance to the mass murder of over twelve million human beings.
Don't do that.
Originally posted by theRhenn
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by theRhenn
I'm sorry, do you knowwhat a holocaust is, theRhenn? It's not a word you can just use for any old thing.
You're comparing spoken ignorance to the mass murder of over twelve million human beings.
Don't do that.
....again is the key word here. So you're saying, since it already happened once, it can never happen again?
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by theRhenn
I'm sorry, do you knowwhat a holocaust is, theRhenn? It's not a word you can just use for any old thing.
You're comparing spoken ignorance to the mass murder of over twelve million human beings.
Don't do that.
Originally posted by Magnum007
where do you count the 20 million russians who were killed?
i guess they aren't important and history shouldn't account for them... after all, they aren't jewish...edit on 11/11/27 by Magnum007 because: (no reason given)
Only 6 million killed in the holocaust were Jewish. There were another six million made up of everyone else. The term also refers to those killed as German prisoners. Most of those Russian deaths did not happen as POW's, but in the Eastern front itself.
I suppose you could call the deaths of everyone in that war a holocaust - a mass sacrifice. But generally it refers to the mass murder carried out by Germany against prisoners in german captivity. extra DIV
Originally posted by Magnum007
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by theRhenn
I'm sorry, do you knowwhat a holocaust is, theRhenn? It's not a word you can just use for any old thing.
You're comparing spoken ignorance to the mass murder of over twelve million human beings.
Don't do that.
where do you count the 20 million russians who were killed?
i guess they aren't important and history shouldn't account for them... after all, they aren't jewish...edit on 11/11/27 by Magnum007 because: (no reason given)
On 9 September 1997, a series of speakers and memorial services, honoring the memory of the 3.5 million Christians who were murdered by Turkish persecutions from 1894-1923, were held in the greater Baltimore Washington area. The memorial service was conducted by the choirs of St. Mary's Armenian Church, St. Katherine's Greek Orthodox Church, Fr. George Alexson of St. Katherine's, Fr. Vertanes Katayjian of St. Mary's and other Orthodox clergy.
The 75th anniversary of the Christian Holocaust was memorialized on 9 September 1997, the date in 1922 of the destruction of the city of Smyrna. This memorial honors the memory of over 3.5 million Christians who were murdered by Turkish persecutions from 1894-1923. Not only was this the memorial of the Holocaust of Smyrna (now Izmir) and the martyrdom of Smyrna's Metropolitan Chrysostomos, but also of the 3.5 million Christians who perished during the first Holocaust of this century. But the events of 1922 are not an isolated incident. The atrocities committed by Turkish forces against a civilian population began before WW1 and have never ended. This event seeks to expose the continuum of a Turkish campaign of persecution, deportation, and murder designed to rid Asia of its Christian populace.
Well, I don't know of many countries/religions that pay a massive force of internet trolls to skew polls, disrupt discussions, and spread hatred around the internet.
Originally posted by Puck 22
I have heard this question many times. Why focus on the Jews? Even if what they are doing to the Palestinians is wrong there are many much more grievous crimes being committed by other governments. Why then does everyone seem to focus on poor Israel?
Perhaps it is because the exploitation of child labor in China. the Turkish slaughter of Kurds and the genocides being committed in other parts of the world are not being financed by my tax dollars. But when a building in the Gaza strip is blown up killing eight women and fourteen children because it was suspected of housing a Hamas leader I am aware the jet the missile was fired from was probably payed for by U.S. tax dollars and even the missile used was provided by us.
This tends to make the murders committed by Israel seem a tad more personal than those committed in other nations.
My apologies to the OP for bring Israel into the discussion but it was impossible to respond to the question without doing so.