It just wasn’t the Jews the Nazis went after. Tell me, why did the Nazis kill over 3 million Catholic Polish people? Thousands of them nuns, priests. I find it amazing how liberals will accuse Catholics of trivializing the holocaust when mentioning the names of St. Maximillian Kolbe, Father Delp and Edith Stein and cry bigot. They are most likely bigots themselves.
I am not saying that we need to “colonize” one holocaust over another, I am in fact saying the opposite. We need to recognize that a holocaust is a holocaust and there is not just one group in all of time that has suffered from this.
Where has the term Holocaust ever been used in the examples you gave except by you?
1, Don’t make generalizations.
What??? The Poles don’t use the Polish word for “holocaust” to describe Christian losses in Poland. I’d presume that you’d know that.Imagine that, Poles not using Hebrew or English words to describe something. I’m suppose they are doing something unexpected…like using Polish words.
Oh its not just me!
I totally agree and wonder why some have the need to want to appropriate the word for their own agenda.
Sadly, exactly on point.
No, a holocaust is not a holocaust. All those events are tragedies, or horrors or genocides. The term “holocaust” was originally used to describe the Jewish tragedy and should remain as such. We ought to respect that use regardless if the use of the term has been abused by others
The definition of Holocaust is
But for some reason in the 1950’s or so the Jewish people decided to coin this term and denie any other group to use it. Which is so bizarre. We are doing a huge disservice to all those who have suffered the horrors of a holocaust just to give honor to one group who also suffered the same horrors. By giving this term to one group alone we are allowing others to look past or to dismiss other like incidents simply because we don’t want to see it as the same when in actuality it is exactly the same.
I have no resentment against Jews but I am absolutely sure others do, and the thinly disguised (sometimes very thinly) anti-Semitism expressed by some members who post to these fora are evidence, as is much of what we see in the world at large. We need to do things that reduce and eliminate resentment on both sides, not increase or preserve it. If that means reserving the use of the term holocaust to represent only one historical situation, then so be it.
Well put!! Why antagonize with the remarks that the Jews don’t own the word, that the Jews have absolutely no business kwetching about the Catholics usurping the word, that the Jews should just shut the h*ll up, etc., etc.? Why feed divisiveness?What happened to Christian charity, indeed?
Politically correct propaganda.
We must not compromise truth. To tell people not to use the term holocaust when referring to abortion is the refusal to recognize abortion as a violation of human rights.
Not at all. To tell people not to use the term Holocaust except when referring to the German murder campaign is to show respect for the Jews. No one used the term to refer to abortion except to draw an association between the **actual **Holocaust and the numbers of abortions. Before the early 70s, the word commonly used, meant only one thing - the Shoah.
You may remember me saying that my family were German Jews and a few of them from that time are still alive. They still donate to charities too – do they donate to Israel? No they don’t. Every cent they donate goes to charities for refugees and victims of torture and they passed on their concerns – many of their children and grandchildren became active as advocates in those fields.
Gosh, I guess the rest of my post, the one you quoted a portion of, just didn’t count.
I haven’t time for a longer answer - Shabbat approaches.
