lets. lets not call donald trump ‘fuhrer trump’. im not saying this bc of the “is comparing donald trump to hitler minimizing the holocaust” discussion that we were having in early 2016 because i don’t think that rhetoric is relevant any more, at this point historical context is very important, but holy shit, please don’t call him führer trump!
i’m jewish and thats the most triggering antisemitism-related thing ive heard in ages, like fuck don’t do that? don’t tell me i’m living under a second nazi germany in such a casual, flippant, ironic way? he is the president, he is doing terrible things, and this isn’t time for your cute little jokes about how we’re all going to be as fucked as the germans were. don’t do that. DON’T call him hitler for cheap emphasis when i’m already trying so hard to feel anything but paralyzing terror
(edit: please if you tend to put SJ stuff on your blog reblog this post instead of just liking it, i really want it to get visibility)
Tag: Holocaust
It’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Never forget the Porjamos–the genocide of over a million Romani people by the Nazis.
Never forget the Farhud, a Nazi-inspired pogrom in Iraq, 1941.
Never forget the Nazis also killed Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.
Never forget Aktion T4, a the so-called “mercy killings” (genocide) of those called “useless eaters” (disabled people).
Never forget the hundreds of Black Germans who were forcibly sterilized by the Nazis.
Never forget the “inverts” and “homosexuals” who were rounded up and sent to their deaths because they were deemed a threat to the “Aryan Race.”
Never forget the “nice Germans” who didn’t “care about politics” and silently watched their neighbors be taken away to be tortured and killed.
Never forget the anti-fascists and the Partisans who were of many nations, including Jews, who fought the Nazis and rescued concentration camp survivors.
Never forget the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an armed resistance of Jewish people that saved thousands of lives from the concentration camps.
Never forget the smaller acts of resistance like industrial sabotage practiced by those in the concentration camps to reduce their contribution to the Nazi war machine.
Never forget that the United States of America’s xenophobic, racist, eugenicist, antisemitic, ableist, and anti-Romani immigration quotas policy condemned millions of people to death.
Never forget the fate of the M.S. St. Louis.
Never forget that Nazism was fairly popular in the USA until Germany declared war on it.
Never forget that antisemitism persisted during that time and was heightened during the McCarthyism.
Never forget the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) who violently suppressed political radicals (including killing the Jewish communist Rosa Luxemberg and other members of the KPD) during the Wiemar Republic, inadvertently aiding the Nazis.
Never forget Magnus Hirschfeld, a sexologist, Homosexual Transvestite*, and German Jew–and his Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
(Institute for Sexual Science). *his own terms
Never forget that the Nazis burned it and all the works in his library.
Willem Arondeus, a Dutch Homosexual gentile artist, writer, and resistance leader who led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office on July 1st 1943 in order to hinder the Nazi round-up of Jews.
Never forget his final words: “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
Never forget that the city of Shanghai brought in tens of thousands of Jews, more than any USA city.
Never forget the USSR, not the USA or Britain, liberated most of the concentration camps and captured Berlin, ending the war.
Never forget the Japanese-Americans who liberated Dachau that USA textbooks never mention.
Never forget that the world knew.
Never forget all the Holocaust survivors who escaped the concentration camps and arrived in Britain, the USA, and the USSR and told the world their stories.
Never forget the silence.
Never forget that the entire chain of command for the USA, including President Roosevelt, ordered the air force not to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz and the gas chambers which would have saved thousands.
Never forget that everything the Nazis did was LEGAL.
Never forget Henry Ford and all the other American Nazi-collaborators.
Never forget the pogroms just after the Holocaust officially ended.
Never forget that never again means never again to anyone.
Never forget the betrayal.
Never forget the solidarity.
Never forget that “first they came for the Socialists.”
Never forget that an injury to one is an injury to all.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this twitter account is posting the names and photos (when available) of refugees turned away from America who became victims of Naziism. #NoBanNoWall #RefugeesWelcome
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