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So many people, so many genocides, so many holocausts.
How strange then that in the eyes of so many there’s only one Holocaust, the trademarked one and only Holocaust that you hear and read about daily, and to express anything remotely close to criticism about this Holycaust immediately brands you as the evil one, the anti-Semite. End of discussion!
At least that’s what’s expected from the passive masses: silence as a result of fear of being labelled as the most politically incorrect term ever. Hopefully, this nonsense is about to change. Or better yet, it must change, since such childlike behaviour – you’re a Nazi! – should be wiped off the map immediately.
I’ve been reading David E. Stannards classic book American Holocaust (1992) lately, and even though he’s almost excusing himself for bringing this up, at least he tries to put things in perspective:
To say this is not to say that the Jewish Holocaust – the inhuman destruction of 6,000,000 people – was not an abominaly unique event. It was. So, too, for reasons of its own, was the mass murder of about 1,000,000 Armenians in Turkey a few decades prior to the Holocaust. So, too, was the deliberately caused “terror-famine” in Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1930s, which killed more than 14,000,000 people. So, too, have been each of the genocidal slaughters of many millions more, decades after the Holocaust, in Burundi, Bangladesh, Kampuchea, East Timor, the Brazilian Amazon, and elsewhere. Additonally, within the framework of the Holocaust itself, there were aspects that were unique in the campaign of genocide conducted by the Nazis against Europe’s Romani (Gypsy) people, which resulted in the mass murder of perhaps 1,500,000 men, women and children. Of course, there also were the unique horrors of the African slave trade, during the course of which at least 30,000,000 – and possibly as many as 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 – Africans were killed, most of them in the prime of their lives, before they even had a chance to begin working as human chattel on plantations in the Indies and the Americas. And finally, there is the unique subject of this book, the total extermination of many American Indian peoples and the near-extermination of others, in numbers that eventually totaled close to 100,000,000.
More stuff about the Holocaust and Zionism:
Holocaust religion
Ahmadinejad and honesty
Modern Apartheid
American Radical – A documentary about Norman Finkelstein
