Unfortunately, George Floyd in the holocaust museum is par for the course in the liberal reaction to the holocaust, which is to use it to fight for liberality everywhere (until you are cannabalized by the hard left, which has its own idea of the sacred)
Unfortunately, using the holocaust inevitably trivializes it, and while more people may become aware a George Floyd could die in America, fewer will know an actual Holocaust could happen here, and therein the deep twisting irony of our commemorations and memorials -
The only approach to commemorating the holocaust that does not participate in the causes of the holocaust is the one that respects it as in individual and unique and ultimately sacred event.
The universalizing liberal instinct is a defense mechanism. It is liberality saying "we had nothing to do with the problem." It is the leading lights of western civ trying to pin the crime on their results and dialectic antithesis
They say "if we get rid of the non-liberal, no holocaust", because on level it's too painful to think how liberal Germany was before it all went down, how none of the art or empathy or irony or sophistication or bleeding hearts in the west were sufficiently preventative
"a holocaust could never happen here if we have animal cruelty laws and influential hippie movements and high humanism and compassion and museum displays about our own culture of neglect"

...is what they said in Germany before the holocaust

I'm just saying
The best recipe for preventing a holocaust is to not get clever and pretend the causality is at all understood, but rather moral humility before G-d, a pause at the gate of theories and connections to think "could I defend this self-righteousness before the All-Knowing?"
Stop trying to understand. Stop trying to look closer. Remove your sandals.
You can follow @kilovh.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: