This reminds me how during the later stages of WW2, while the Nazis were losing the war, they kept spending resources on the Holocaust.
The scary thing is that it actually wasn't a lot of resources. Most genocides in history have happened in places that aren't industrialized. In those cases, yeah it did take a significant amount of resources and involves a lot of people.
For an an industrialized country, genocide on the scale the Nazis did is actually a tiny percentage of the resources available. Think about how many people you can put in just one train. Even if that train runs just a few times a day, well... there's some extremely dark mathematics about it.
The politics of hate is so incredibly dangerous in an industrialized country. Industrialized genocide can kill millions without impacting other priorities.
Scary to think about.
Why are the so many people on this site white washing Nazis? It seems so concetrated here.
I'm very curious about what it is that you think the word "whitewash" means.
I googled it after reading your comment cause I realized I didn't actually know what it meant.
There were a few definitions but I'm guessing this is the one the person you're replying to meant:
"deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something)."
Idk why they thought someone calling out Nazis for spending resources on the Holocaust up until the very end meant that people are whitewashing Nazis though.
I think the comparison is, in the eyes of Blamemeta, between a thing that is very severe and a thing that is somewhat less severe. If that's the case, equating the two must either exaggerate the severity of the latter or minimize the severity of the former.
So I think Blamemeta is trying to say that it cheapens the severity of the holocaust, not realizing that the word "whitewash" implies that it's deliberate, i.e. that Acharnien also agrees that Russia's law isn't a big deal and want to use it to downplay the holocaust. But I think it's more likely they just meant to say "cheapens" instead of "whitewash" lol
I am not equating though, I just wrote "this reminds me". They're being dramatic.
Making something seem not-as-bad. Nazis literally genocided 11 million people. Russia is being awful about medical care. Theres an ocean of difference.
-- Hey those kids are good at playing soccer very defensively. It kind of reminds me of when Greece got the 2004 Euro Cup under the management of Otto Rehhagel.
-- How dare you compare the two things. One was a major international professional soccer competition, that shaped a country's sports for a generation, the other one is just some shitty kids kicking a deflated ball in a school yard.
-- Well, yea, sure but they do both win by playing quite defensively. Noticing that takes nothing away from Greece's epic historic win, what kind of idiot would think that?
Sorry, what? Are you saying that this comment about the holocaust makes the Nazis look... better?
More like equating the holocaust to bad medical care is trying to make the holocaust look better. Im exergeratting of course, but im hate when people call everything nazi.
I didn't "equate" anything. I said that one thing reminds me of another.
This reminds me how during the later stages of WW2, while the Nazis were losing the war, they kept spending resources on the Holocaust.
The scary thing is that it actually wasn't a lot of resources. Most genocides in history have happened in places that aren't industrialized. In those cases, yeah it did take a significant amount of resources and involves a lot of people.
For an an industrialized country, genocide on the scale the Nazis did is actually a tiny percentage of the resources available. Think about how many people you can put in just one train. Even if that train runs just a few times a day, well... there's some extremely dark mathematics about it.
The politics of hate is so incredibly dangerous in an industrialized country. Industrialized genocide can kill millions without impacting other priorities.
Scary to think about.
Why are the so many people on this site white washing Nazis? It seems so concetrated here.
I'm very curious about what it is that you think the word "whitewash" means.
I googled it after reading your comment cause I realized I didn't actually know what it meant.
There were a few definitions but I'm guessing this is the one the person you're replying to meant:
"deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something)."
Idk why they thought someone calling out Nazis for spending resources on the Holocaust up until the very end meant that people are whitewashing Nazis though.
I think the comparison is, in the eyes of Blamemeta, between a thing that is very severe and a thing that is somewhat less severe. If that's the case, equating the two must either exaggerate the severity of the latter or minimize the severity of the former. So I think Blamemeta is trying to say that it cheapens the severity of the holocaust, not realizing that the word "whitewash" implies that it's deliberate, i.e. that Acharnien also agrees that Russia's law isn't a big deal and want to use it to downplay the holocaust. But I think it's more likely they just meant to say "cheapens" instead of "whitewash" lol
I am not equating though, I just wrote "this reminds me". They're being dramatic.
Making something seem not-as-bad. Nazis literally genocided 11 million people. Russia is being awful about medical care. Theres an ocean of difference.
-- Hey those kids are good at playing soccer very defensively. It kind of reminds me of when Greece got the 2004 Euro Cup under the management of Otto Rehhagel.
-- How dare you compare the two things. One was a major international professional soccer competition, that shaped a country's sports for a generation, the other one is just some shitty kids kicking a deflated ball in a school yard.
-- Well, yea, sure but they do both win by playing quite defensively. Noticing that takes nothing away from Greece's epic historic win, what kind of idiot would think that?
Sorry, what? Are you saying that this comment about the holocaust makes the Nazis look... better?
More like equating the holocaust to bad medical care is trying to make the holocaust look better. Im exergeratting of course, but im hate when people call everything nazi.
I didn't "equate" anything. I said that one thing reminds me of another.
You're whitewashing Putin's regime right now.