• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    8 days ago

    I get where you’re coming from, but slow your roll on “It’s time to forget what happened in 1940-45”.

    Understanding history is a vital part of not repeating mistakes.

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        8 days ago

        Perhaps I was too poetic: that was my point.

        You can’t point to the IDF and say, ‘Hey! Look! See how they’re doing the same shit Nazis did??’ if people aren’t well informed about all the shit that Nazis did.

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      8 days ago

      Jesus fucking christ, do you really need to have what he meant spelled out to you in fucking crayon???

      He means lets stop allowing them to hide behind 6 million dead people to deflect, or worse, justify, what they are doing today.

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        8 days ago

        Yes, I understand that. Which is why it would be a mistake to forget it.

        It’s not coincidental that the Holocaust is our most useful case study in understanding and explaining Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. If you want to oppose genocide, it is a mistake to try to do so by “forgetting” about a genocide.

        Remembering previous genocides is an important part of preventing/halting genocides.