Reply #10: Excellent post... [View All]

[Violet_Crumble]

Anti-Semitism in the 1930's was widespread, and openly encouraged by the Nazis and was a mainstay of Nazi values. German nationalism and wounded pride over what Germans saw as harsh punishment in the Treaty of Versailles had them eager to find a scapegoat, and the Jewish people became that scapegoat. If the EU was forming a special Jewish Bureau like the one formed by the Nazis with Eichmann at its head in 1936, if pogroms were happening (Kristallnacht happened in 1938, if the EU was discussing either killing whole sections of populations or coming up with something like the Madagascar Plan, then every man and his dog should be seeing the similarities and shouting blue murder. But like you said, the anti-Semitism now is nothing at all like what happened in the 1930's...

What concerns me when I see people doing a 'The Holocaust Is Coming!!' sort of argument is that it's just the mirror-image of what others do when they bring up the Holocaust in the same way to criticise Israels treatment of the Palestinians. In both cases it's wrong, and apart from tarnishing the memory of the Holocaust and its victims, it could end up becoming a Boy Who Cried Wolf thing and if the unthinkable were ever to start happening again (and there were more than enough clues of what was to come back in the 30's), the people who need to sit up and take notice and do something might write it off as just another false alarm...

Violet...

on edit: Does anyone know if the State Department appoints ambassadors based on their ability to put both feet in their mouth at the same time? We've got one of them here who thought it was just fine to openly criticise what was said by our Opposition in Parliament, a definate no-no...