I was attacked by someone wearing a swastika and giving Hitler salutes but ok https://twitter.com/siameseblk/status/963758825336537089 …
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Well, you do you. We Jews don’t own the word. But when you’re talking Nazis, “Survivor” means only one thing to me, and to lots of others too.
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I guess my question would be: why is suggesting that we limit the word “survivor”—in the context of Nazi crimes—to describing those who lived through the Shoah the same thing as “writing off the experiences” of those who suffer the violence of neo-Nazi violence?
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Sorry, meant to write “who suffer neo-Nazi violence.”
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My grandfather was beaten black and blue by Nazi youth and conscripted to work in a brick laying factory until he got a visa to the US in 1940, one of the last German Jews who got out. I don’t think he ever referred to himself as a “survivor.”
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His experiences don’t have to define yours, or anyone else’s. But I imagine a lot of people who grew up around actual Shoah survivors might find the use of that word in this context problematic. I certainly do. But if you’re untroubled by that, nobody’s going to stop you!
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We can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think people can disagree civilly about how we talk about anything without it undermining the cause of liberal democracy. That is all I was trying to do here.
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