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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 He is indeed a hero!
But,...I try understand where they are are coming from. Misappropriation of Apartheid does a disservice to those who suffered through it & were deprived of basic human dignity via Gov't policy - far surpassing the Civil Rights Mov. My family was there.
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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 Misappropriation of the Civil Rights movement does a disservice to those that were (earlier) literally enslaved & then still denied human dignity and rights.
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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 Misappropriation of the Holocaust does a disservice to people who were specifically targeted for total eradication simply due to both their race & religion - and was a culmination of centuries of progroms and blood libels.
Given that...I can see where they are coming from.
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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 You will note that neither Jewish organization attacked his arguments (they actually supported the right to critically debate gov't measures) - but rather the comparison to the targeted intentional slaughter of one racial/religious group with the goal of total annihilation.
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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 Ironically what people are actually attempting to compare to COVID-19 from the Holocaust period is not actually the Holocaust itself - but rather the progroms, Nuremburg Race Laws, & other anti-Semitic laws of that time period.
Clearly a failure of our education system.
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@LysanderMurphy @DonaldWelsh16 Here are (some of) the hundreds of pre-war Anti-Semitic laws:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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