Iran's President says that Israel will soon be wiped out / misquoted (merged)

[picoico]

Re: Iran's President says that Israel will soon be wiped out

@mercenary2k

The holocaust was unique because never before had an entire race of people been systematically wiped out like the Jews in an industrial way like getting them to register, then putting them on trains and then putting them in gas chambers and then burning their bodies.

Mass Murder has happened throughout history but not on the scale of this.

I understand...but so what if it was unique in this way? Let's say that instead of slaughtering the Jews Hitler merely ordered their expulsion...even if it was systematically done, and done along racial lines...I would hardly think it would be as relevant.

Yes, it was unique...and it's alarming because it shows that a modern nation state can do what we typically are indoctrinated to believe they can't; here you have the industrial and scientific establishment being fully complicit in mass murder. In that sense, it's much more relevant than, say, the Mongolian genocides.

But I'm loathed to suggest it's somehow worse....