I did *use to* think of it as my people also dying "in the Holocaust" (rather than just "in the death camps".) The phrasing still slips in.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan
What woke me on this was talking to a blowhard acquaintance about the extermination, the death camps, the abjection at the root of it...
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan
... and crucially, the impact on self of growing up (from the point you know your sexuality anyway) knowing that you w/d have been gassed.
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I remember said blowhard missed the point--b/c yeah, ofc, sez he, having once been a shop steward (in non-fascist UK) he too w/d have died.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan
Me: Oh, hell to the no. Don't give me some self-serving wank fantasy that you'd have been targeted for fucking politics "just like" my kin.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan
Sure, the trade unionists & socialist & so on died in the death camps too but you are *so missing the point* here. It's not about you, FFS.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan
Even assuming in that time & place you w/dn't have *just been a fucking Nazi*, did you know *at age 13* that you would have been gassed? No.
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the Nazis made it pretty clear what their own priority was with their cutesy little triangle code
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan
"normal" categories of prisoner were denoted by the downward triangle (red = political, pink = gay, black = disabled)
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but if you were Jewish you automatically got the superimposed upward yellow triangle on top, making a Star of David
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and people w the double triangles were moved to the head of the line to be gassed
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