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I agree, but I think the Jewish community has done a magnificent job in making  sure that everyone remembers about the Jewish victims. [b] To bring up the other 4-5 million people targeted for the ethnicity, religion, sexuality, etc. one would be accused of ignoring the Jewish plight and labeled anti-Semite.[/b] The word holocaust was around long before 1933, but it has now been co-opt by what happened to the Jewish people (only) of WWII. There was DCUm thread a year ago and somebody called what happened to those people in Rwanda a holocaust and many people objected saying that that word was now off limit to all other mass atrocities. I guess it has been patented like Komen's pink ribbons. [/quote]

No. It is all equally horrifying.  You diminish it by your accusations.

We Americans tend to talk about The Civil War too, referring to our war between the states.  Hardly the only civil war.  The events of WWII are hardly the only holocaust, though in common speech, it is referred to as The Holocaust. That doesn't change the meaning of the word, and sadly, there are many places since where it can be applied. It's so easy to post anonymously complaining about Jews taking yet another thing they are not entitled to (role a survivors from the tragic history of Nazi Germany/ victims of holocaust). It is so much more difficult to be part of the active force of people who continually voice objection --or better, turn themselves to action-- when any group of people sees another as despisable and dispensable. [/quote]

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