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The stated reason does suggest they believe non-Jewish groups are less deserving of remembrance: These people are not in the same category as Jewish people
by duncanawoods 10y ago
The stated reason does suggest they believe non-Jewish groups are less deserving of remembrance:
These people are not in the same category as Jewish people
with regards to the Holocaust,” Hikind said following a
press conference at the memorial. “It is so vastly
different. You cannot compare political prisoners with
Jewish victims.”
The proviso I would add is that NYP a muck-racking rag that delights in outrage and controversy. I would be very skeptical it is giving a full and fair account of the individual's views.
Anyone who's happy to make the former interpretation
needs to look very carefully at their motivations.
I don't believe the parent is making unfair interpretation of the actual article content. Using that as a source is somewhat suspect but any discussion of anything holocaust, Jewish or Israeli leads to accusations of anti-semitism these days. Its a problem, please be charitable.
- redsummer 10y agoThe guy in question - Dov Hikind - seems quite open in his views. He's a follower of the terrorist group Jewish Defense League who has some odd views that @tome will probably be happy to explain to you as misunderstood :) http://gawker.com/5986773/assemblyman-dov-hikind-king-of-one-way-sensitivity-partied-in-blackface-yesterday http://gawker.com/5986773/assemblyman-dov-hikind-king-of-one...
- tome 10y agoI certainly repudiate Kahane and the JDL. That just makes your argument even weaker though. If you have to use a member of a fringe extremist group as an example to slander Jews then you're not standing on very firm ground.
- redsummer 10y agoI don't know what to say about your prickly confused paranoia. I have no need to 'slander Jews'. If I were to criticise a Christian fundamentalist would I be 'slandering Christianity'? If I were to criticise a Jihadist would I be 'slandering Islam'. Should I be told to shut up? Look, the guy you have supported here is open in his support of Kahane and the JDL. That's just the territory you occupy.
- tome 10y agoPerhaps, then, you can explain what you meant in your post "Apparently, remembering gypsies and other groups 'diminishes the memory' of the holocaust because they were just 'political prisoners'". It sounds like you were suggesting that that statement is a widely held belief amongst Jews in general. The tabloid article you linked doesn't support that claim. So what exactly is your claim?
- redsummer 10y agoEverything 'it sounds like you were suggesting' is in your paranoid head. I was linking to an article. I am not Hitler hiding under your bed. This is Hacker News - where people post links.