Your cause is not helped by exploiting our dead relatives
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Jewish kids were not murdered en mass for you to score twitter points for your culture war....
The genocide of Jewish people did not happen for your animal rights campaign to gain maximum shock value.
Jews weren’t even killed for money so it’s a stupid comparison. You picked us because you thought we were an easy target....
And if you support that as ‘fair rhetorical use of the Holocaust’ then you can’t complain when causes that you don’t like adopt it.
How about everyone just stops abusing our dead relatives. Its hurtful, selfish and immoral. We need your help calling it out, not excuses....
Because this is where it ends....
Being ask to wear a face mask on public transport is a minor inconvenience, like wearing a seatbelt.
This man refusing to wear one is not like Anne Frank, and the Police are not like Nazis for enforcing a rule to help keep us safe
If you see a connection between the Holocaust and your cause, then it’s not because they are similar.
It is because you are being self-obsessed and thoughtless....
Some causes have strong Jewish backing because elements of it have echoes of the Holocaust.
But using our dead for some sort of sick competition to gain attention? It doesn’t gain sympathy, it’s just a cheap shot....
It chips away at the memory of the Holocaust. Kids play ‘Holocaust’ on Instagram and people are just relieved it’s not Holocaust denial.
That’s what using the Holocaust for your cause has contributed to....
I’m sure you feel strongly about your cause. Some have my wholehearted support. But never at the expense of my murdered family.
Never gain attention or score points by using the industrial genocide of my people for comparison. It undermines your cause and abuses our dead. /end
Footnote:
If you compare the health system which saves lives to the concentration camp which industrially exterminated Jews, then you are a racist
Footnote 2: details of what happened to Jews in the Holocaust being used to describe restrictions on the size of groups meeting up.
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