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This doesn't respond to my point at all. I tell you that it is ahistorical, dishonest, and disrespecful to equate subsistence farmers being forced into subsiste

This doesn't respond to my point at all. I tell you that it is ahistorical, dishonest, and disrespecful to equate subsistence farmers being forced into subsistence factory work by globalization and economic conditions with the holocaust, the mass deliberate extermination of Jews, Romani, Slavs, the disabled, etc. because one uses slavery and the other uses something that you consider comparable to slavery. Your answer is that less bad things are also bad? Sure, yeah, but they're nevertheless less bad and shouldn't be treated as equal. Not to make light of poor working conditions, dirt wages, and child labor. They can be and should be addressed. But they're not genocide and throwing out a "Arbeit macht frei!" is gross here.

ceejayoz 4mo ago
"It's fine if we mistreat this subgroup, they should be grateful for what we let them have" is a shared theme between the two. And as noted elsewhere in the conversation, American companies are benefiting from actual concentration camp labor (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/30/revealed-major-nba-brands-linked-to-forced-labor-in-china https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/30/revealed-major...) that some deem genocide (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55973215). https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/poverty-and-persecution-the-reichsvereinigung.html https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/poverty-and-pers... > Jewish institutions sought to grapple with the consequences of a process of structural pauperization as driven by deliberate policy