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This is such a weird statement to me.

Genocide and mass murder have been repeated over and over again. You don't even have to go outside the middle of the 20th century to find crimes as bad as teh Holocaust. Stalin's policy murder 20 to 60 million people. During WWII, the Japanese murdered at least 5 million civilians and estimates have ranged as high as 30 million civilians.

You don't need to imagine other cultures doing it. You just need to read history.

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I'm second-guessing the PP, but a difference between the Holocaust and acts of genocide seems that the Holocaust's explicit objective was to kill and eradicate all Jews (and gypsies and homesexuals etc.) the Nazi slayers could get hold of. Stalin mass-murdered, but mainly as a means for preserving political power. The Japanese murdered, but mainly as a means to enforce military occupation. Slave traders murdered, but mostly as a means for providing the Americas with cheap labor. The US army murdered Native Americans, but mostly as a means to occupy their land.

In case of the Holocaust, mass-murder was not a means but an end in itself.

This doesn't at all lessen the suffering of other victims of genocide, but implies that in this aspect, the Holcoaust is unique.

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Nazis murdered Jews and Poles and Gypsies and others in an effort to purify the race. They were furthering eugenic social policies, which they believed to be based in science.

In the US, we fostered eugenic social policy in less violent ways -- forced sterilization, outlawing mixed race marriages, and funding Planned Parenthood. Many scientists and policy people were very upset about how far ahead of us Germany was getting in fostering eugenics.

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