the holocaust suffered by the Jews is not a tool available to you for moral castigation; it was not a mere extreme example of "human rights abuses" or "white supremacy" or "racism"; it was an event (really a series of events ofc, etc) at one point in time, sacred and alone https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1387073128568967171

the only reason this moron feels comfortable saying "you know since you didn't die out totally in the holocaust you really should be behaving better" is because Jews themselves co-opted the holocaust

we TOLD THEM it's a political macguffin

it's our fault

the holocaust is not actually just a really swollen instance of whatever you're going on about at any given time

there are (and have to be) jumps and gaps in your pattern recognition, if anything is to remain distinct and respective

this way of looking at the world in which everything comprehensible and thus manipulable and thus eventually coopted is a disease (and if I was in the mood, could easily be MY form of mini-holocaust)

it was the Jews who said "the holocaust means we need this policy" who erred

it's so unbearably callous, so cheapening of every "memorial" and "memorial day", to realize it's all just an opportunity to wrench an unthinkable rift in moral reality from its still-suffering nation and say "this belongs to everyone, hashtag human rights"

and for the record, I believe this is true of all such rifts, slavery, the holodomor, the holocaust of the roma and the homosexuals etc ad infinitum

each in its individual undilutable real place

I've posted this a million times so I may as well post it again https://notajungle.com/2018/06/how-the-holocaust-became-a-political-plaything/

The moral obligation to learn from past events, to make "never again", CANNOT and MUST NOT terminate in superficial externalities

the holocaust and everything like it is born from a list of "never again"s, it doesn't work

it is an artifact of the fallen human condition to respond to the incomprehensible, the chosen, the infinite, the evil, with what is fundamentally technocratic hubris

I haven't even gotten to the deeply disturbing weaponization of empathy, the technical incomparability of situations, the cynical demand for feeling - the things I'm sure thousands will respond with

to me these are not the root issues

the root issue is subtler - desacration

! https://twitter.com/kilovh/status/1038084087997710343

"we have to learn what lesson we can from the holocaust" is a humble thing to say about yourself, like someone trying to find some meaning in a slap in the face, it's noble

"I can't believe you're just another holocaust" is what we do instead

the difference is infinite

this whole thing happens because having principles is difficult and require thinking and doesn't burn with the sensation of social and empathic argument

"if I can't use the holocaust, how can I argue against the holocaust"

do you even hear yourself

nothing is allowed to just be itself

everything must be marshaled for some battle. not a battle between people; the people are not allowed to be themselves. a battle between projected concepts, a battle between the connections we see

an instance of a category is not reducible in any way to the category

it is not even just the category plus some difference

the instances exist at their deepest identity apart from their categories

(just thought I'd zoom all the way out from the matter at hand, in a contemplative attempt at finding calm)

(and jews *are* by a billion miles human rights champions on a per capita basis, who has done more?! who is more committed? we pay bottom dollar for this paradigm, we give a lot of charity and do a lot of protesting and exert a lot of effort, and this is what we get?!)

the original tweet is like a goddamned onion of outrages