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People wonder how the Holocaust happened. > The number of people in the camps, which had fallen to 7,500, grew again to 21,000 by the start of World War II[8]

People wonder how the Holocaust happened. > The number of people in the camps, which had fallen to 7,500, grew again to 21,000 by the start of World War II[8] and peaked at 715,000 in January 1945.[9] I'm sure people around the world said something similar to "well, it's China and it's THEIR country, so that's up to them and we shouldn't be getting involved".

existencebox 8y ago
I wasn't even going to go the inevitable "nazi comparison" direction, one can make a sound argument based on sub-cultural oppression leading largely towards genocide going on in a handful of different countries even now and it avoids ratholing on the third rail that is "nazis". Want an additional kicker? Watch how quickly we get downvoted for even mentioning this, and typically sans any reply or deeper discussion. I'm not sure what social phenomena we're witnessing here, but it's very unsettling to me.
- onetimemanytime 8y ago
  >>I'm not sure what social phenomena we're witnessing here, but it's very unsettling to me. The building on the new man, the Party man. It's logical, the Party wants no competition, wants to be the only ideology there. Islam is competition: Muslims look towards Mecca not towards the Politburo palace. So they'll mess with them, anyway they can. It's not personal, it's business (see Falun Gong, Tibet etc)
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Not just downvoted, flagged off the front page like a brick, while this fluff is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612237 I love how all people talking about the second piece refute it, but it has over 30 upvotes. Maybe it's not a social phenomenon, maybe it's the fact that people can vote and flag without that being public, on a site that requires nothing but a password, posting some generics about programming to get 500 karma and off you go.

existencebox 8y ago

I wasn't even going to go the inevitable "nazi comparison" direction, one can make a sound argument based on sub-cultural oppression leading largely towards genocide going on in a handful of different countries even now and it avoids ratholing on the third rail that is "nazis". Want an additional kicker? Watch how quickly we get downvoted for even mentioning this, and typically sans any reply or deeper discussion. I'm not sure what social phenomena we're witnessing here, but it's very unsettling to me.

onetimemanytime 8y ago
>>I'm not sure what social phenomena we're witnessing here, but it's very unsettling to me. The building on the new man, the Party man. It's logical, the Party wants no competition, wants to be the only ideology there. Islam is competition: Muslims look towards Mecca not towards the Politburo palace. So they'll mess with them, anyway they can. It's not personal, it's business (see Falun Gong, Tibet etc)
PavlovsCat 8y ago
Not just downvoted, flagged off the front page like a brick, while this fluff is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18606070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18612237 I love how all people talking about the second piece refute it, but it has over 30 upvotes. Maybe it's not a social phenomenon, maybe it's the fact that people can vote and flag without that being public, on a site that requires nothing but a password, posting some generics about programming to get 500 karma and off you go.