Foreigner4 12 | 1768
22 Apr 2013 / #61
Ladies,
Before this descends into a "this tragedy is worse than that one" argument, ask yourselves what you're really disagreeing on.
The term Holocaust was in use before WW2, is that true or not? Does that change anything? If so, what?
How or why that became the term used to describe the killings of ww2 is something I don't know, do either of you?
How or why that came to specifically reference the Jews and not the majority of people killed is something I don't know, do either of you?
And no, killings being done on a massive scale that is highly organized doesn't make them worse than simply starving people to death or bombing them intentionally or not. When your loved ones are dead then it would scant comfort if one should tell you that at least they didn't die this way or that way. That's about as unintentionally insulting as you could get.
2 pence in the pond.
Before this descends into a "this tragedy is worse than that one" argument, ask yourselves what you're really disagreeing on.
The term Holocaust was in use before WW2, is that true or not? Does that change anything? If so, what?
How or why that became the term used to describe the killings of ww2 is something I don't know, do either of you?
How or why that came to specifically reference the Jews and not the majority of people killed is something I don't know, do either of you?
And no, killings being done on a massive scale that is highly organized doesn't make them worse than simply starving people to death or bombing them intentionally or not. When your loved ones are dead then it would scant comfort if one should tell you that at least they didn't die this way or that way. That's about as unintentionally insulting as you could get.
2 pence in the pond.