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A 24/7 Global Holocaust | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
March 21, 2014
Holocaust (noun): destruction or slaughter on a mass scale
One of the least discussed obstacles we face in the struggle against speciesism is language.
While most of us will flippantly toss off callous phrases like “more than one way to skin a cat” or “kill two birds with one stone,” perhaps the biggest issue is the way some words -- “rape” and “slavery,” for example -- are often reserved solely for human references.
In an even tighter example of restriction, the term “holocaust” has become uniquely associated with and thus limited to humans of Jewish ethnicity or heritage.
While the scores of communists, Roma, homosexuals, and dissidents murdered in Nazi concentration camps would obviously not concur with such a qualification, what are we to say of the ubiquitous packed trains, warehousing, experimentation, gassing, and targeted slaughter of non-human earthlings?
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