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German confusion (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think non-Germans can’t understand the deep social guilt that’s been drilled into them since WWII

Except they only defend Israel...

LGBT was a target too, is Germany standing up for LGBT?

What about the Romani?

What about communists?

What about people who spoke out against genocide?

The Jewish victims of the Holocaust made up about 50% of it's victims. Why unquestionable support for them, but not for other groups?

It's great Germany's seeing the light now, but don't act like they had a rational excuse for blindly supporting a genocide of a different group.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's exactly the point op is making.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

All those Germans in power now were the children of a generation who survived the war as children, and who all had it beaten into them how horrible a people they were and how terrible the atrocity against the Jews they executed.

They're ignoring 50% of the people their parent's generation killed, and excusing the other 50%'s children committing their own genocide against a different group...

They're explicitly not making the same point as me...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

there is a deep cultural guilt around the Holocaust, and although many different people suffered, it's specifically focused on Jews. Even I don't understand it;

OP isn't ignoring it, the culture is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Is it an excuse, or an explanation?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

You didn't read what I wrote; I'll assume because it was too verbose for you.

I said

although many different people suffered, it's specifically focused on Jews.

and

You might think they'd be champions against genocide, but what it ended up being was cultural guilt about murdering Jews.

In the West we ignore the communist victims because we were in a cold war with the Communists. We ignore the LGBTQ because we also oppressed the LBGTQ communities. We didn't carve a new country out of other country's land for anyone except Jews. And the West was a, if not the, major force directing the reeducation of the German populous after WWII.