• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    I’ve got a question for you… I’m sure you are familiar with the famous, “First They Came” sermon/poem/whatever by Martin Niemöller? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_

    At what point during that poem would you consider a genocide underway? Would it be when they started murdering all of the communists? Or maybe after they eliminated all of the trade unionists?

    Let’s extend that poem to include all of the categories of people that the Nazis killed:

    They started with trans people, was it a genocide yet? How about after they started including homosexuals?

    Maybe it becomes a genocide when they go after the mentally and physically disabled?

    Or does it only become a genocide when they go after the Jews?

    Obviously, the answer is all of the fucking above.

    Guess what: Genocide very much can and does get worse. Much much worse. This concept that it is all or nothing is completely ahistorical and illogical.