the last time there was a holocaust; we knew about it because the side that committed it lost; but this time the winning side is going to win and i wonder if this genocide will be nothing more than a historical footnote.
if finkelstein is right; the entire world is complicit.
This is what I mean: the scale and growth of the genocides in North America literally covered an entire content rather than a single country in Palestine but today is a paragraph about the trial of tears in American history books and a couple of signs commemorating particularly nasty episodes in the middle of nowhere and Americans are barely aware.
It’s like the Japanese glossing over the atrocities they committed during WW2; barely acknowledged even then in the most sanitized, blameless, passive way possible.
Eh, a lot of people don’t even see it as a genocide. I’ve argued with people (including a non white person) who tried to tell me it wasn’t a genocide. It is amazing how history can be erased, even as it still unfolds
Difference is: there’s enough Armenians left to force us to reconcile like it is with Jewish people.
The Israelis are doing their damnedest to make sure there aren’t enough Palestinians left to ever resist the boot on their collective necks they again.
once their homeland is reduced to native-american style reservations; their numbers & identity will change as they adapt to their new reality as either expats or generationally impoverished conquered people like the people i descend from.
the last time there was a holocaust; we knew about it because the side that committed it lost; but this time the winning side is going to win and i wonder if this genocide will be nothing more than a historical footnote.
if finkelstein is right; the entire world is complicit.
I mean we know about the native American genocide and those guys lost
And most people in western countries don’t regard it as important
This is what I mean: the scale and growth of the genocides in North America literally covered an entire content rather than a single country in Palestine but today is a paragraph about the trial of tears in American history books and a couple of signs commemorating particularly nasty episodes in the middle of nowhere and Americans are barely aware.
It’s like the Japanese glossing over the atrocities they committed during WW2; barely acknowledged even then in the most sanitized, blameless, passive way possible.
Eh, a lot of people don’t even see it as a genocide. I’ve argued with people (including a non white person) who tried to tell me it wasn’t a genocide. It is amazing how history can be erased, even as it still unfolds
I don’t think this can be memory holed nearly as easily with the amount of evidence distributed globally by those experiencing it.
I hope so anyway.
Sanitized & minimized not forgotten
Who now remembers the Armenians (A lot of people, it turns out, not least the Armenians)
Difference is: there’s enough Armenians left to force us to reconcile like it is with Jewish people.
The Israelis are doing their damnedest to make sure there aren’t enough Palestinians left to ever resist the boot on their collective necks they again.
There are millions of Palestinians in exile.
for now.
once their homeland is reduced to native-american style reservations; their numbers & identity will change as they adapt to their new reality as either expats or generationally impoverished conquered people like the people i descend from.