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[–] 154 points 1 year ago (6 children)

People did know about the genocide in WWII. They were flying planes over the camps. But when the soldiers arrived and took pictures the world learned the horrifying details.

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  • [–] 122 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The difference is, we have the pictures now.

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  • They 100% knew about the Holocaust and as a Jewish person its extremely telling. Anyone who isnt actively calling out the genocide in Palestine is complicit.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago

    Realistically I suspect what they'd actually say is just to deny that it ever happened, or worse, to claim that it was good or necessary or inevitable in some way.

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  • [+] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Swiss government knew as early as 1941. If we knew, the UK with their vastly better intelligence services definitely knew, and their allies probably too.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    "I chose to be willfully ignorant!!"

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Alternatively, I refused to see

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    They also knew about it before the end of the war and the genocide of the Nazis was announced before it happened. Some attempts at damage control against the Nazi regime were maid such as conceding the Sudetenland and the Anschluss of Austria. They did try to stop the Nazis it in part, but appeasement did not work.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Funny to see how history is repeating itself in the US with "internal enemies" being deported to deathcamps outside the country. So much easier to downplay the horrors when the mass killing aren't happening within the country.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Honestly, does it even matter what genocide deniers or people who recognize the genocide say? There's been a lot of discourse, international criminal court investigations, news coverage, protests about Gaza, yet European and American bourgeois governments kept sending billions to Israel and I highly doubt it's due to lack of evidence or that they "didn't know".

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Netanyahu is wanted for crimes against humanity, and yet he is meeting with high ranking officials or even nation leaders...

    we all are complicit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I disagree that "we are all complicit", as it's the ruling bourgeois class that makes all of the decisions for funding/meetups and that's who should be blamed, while the working class is largely powerless with the only 'realistic' resistance towards this geopoliticing being protests, which essentially is nothing more than begging.

    That's the main point of my comment, and if there's anything we as workers are truly guilty of, it's failing to achieve workers liberation that would remove the need for a bourgeois government that helps maintain and strengthen a zionist state completely. Granted, it's not for the lack of trying - liberals have been really good at violently suppressing and exhausting class conscious thought.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    To capitalism, you and me are nothing more than pigs that are kept for their value and slaughtered on the altar of profit whenever the chance arises. Capitalism doesn't care whether there's a genocide happening or not. People care. It is a socialist duty to oppose the mass killing of humans as it is happening today.

    Don't expect capitalists to solve your problems. Only people can bring about change.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yeah, only the workers can bring about change, hopefully by liberating themselves. However, this only stands in theory.

    In reality, Capitalism is a system actively maintained and defended by the bourgeoisie (the ruling/owning class) with their own geopolitical and business interests. This maintenance also entails legitimization of itself (through electorialism), instilling its own values through education and the media which encourages passivity, and it's also crafted in such a way where regular people have very little power to influence things (limits to whom get to be our representatives in democracy by barriers of entry, who gets to actually make decisions), with the best that can be reasonably done without proper revolutionary organization being protests (in other words, begging). This powerlessness was the point of my comment.

    It also doesn't help that Capitalism/bourgeoisie benefits from armed conflicts like these, given how it propagates military industrial complex (profitable businesses), allows capitalists to get their grubby hands on war-torn regions when it comes to reconstruction/minerals post-war and allows to get rid of overproduction which Capitalism tends to produce over time. So, your remark that "Capitalism doesn't care if there's genocide or not" is kinda wrong, it actually thrives off of it which I'd assume makes it happy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    We are experiencing a livestreamed Holocaust!!!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is verified evidence of it.

    Even a body count of 50,000 dead so far and millions of displaced starving people who don't have their homes any more. It's been reported, documented, photographed, on video, eye witness accounts, verified by journalists, academics and politicians.

    We are all complicit at this point.

    In 50 years, the world will blame all of us who are alive now for letting this happen.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    I cared but I felt powerless to do anything besides donate to various charities helping the children of Palestine.

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  • There will be consequences for Israel. Just not today.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [+] -49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Did you really make a wojak meme about the genocide? People out there are living in hell on earth

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  • [–] [S] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn't make it, no.

    I don't see how its different from a political cartoon, or similar.

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  • [+] -36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because chad wojak is a symbol for moral superiority and I hate it, this meme looks as if the author cared more about getting a sick burn than actually saying something

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