This is a genuinely despicable tweet, belittling the seriousness of the industrialised mass murder of six million Jews. Anyone who speaks like this has no place in the left whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/g0Sfcxuamp— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) August 21, 2020
The last paragraph wasn't aimed at you in particular - I'm more trying to make the point that some users on here (after the recent antisemitism debacle where Labour staffers deliberately sat on reports of antisemitism and then leaked the backlog to the press to oust a leader they didn't like) won't take Holocaust comparisons as seriously as they should. It's a sad truth that despite being such a horrific event, it's often joked about/not treated so seriously. People downplaying the original tweet that Owen Jones called out aren't necessarily doing that, but a few of them could use a reminder of the scale of the atrocities.
Also, probably most people on this forum would have been persecuted/killed under the Nazis so there's that. They really didn't like Communists.
The last paragraph wasn't aimed at you in particular - I'm more trying to make the point that some users on here (after the recent antisemitism debacle where Labour staffers deliberately sat on reports of antisemitism and then leaked the backlog to the press to oust a leader they didn't like) won't take Holocaust comparisons as seriously as they should. It's a sad truth that despite being such a horrific event, it's often joked about/not treated so seriously. People downplaying the original tweet that Owen Jones called out aren't necessarily doing that, but a few of them could use a reminder of the scale of the atrocities.
Also, probably most people on this forum would have been persecuted/killed under the Nazis so there's that. They really didn't like Communists.
Thank you for being patient with me. Once again I do appreciate your perspective on this. Have a good weekend :)