Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: EU: Lieberman's Holocaust reference is inappropriate and offensive to Europeans [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)You think it makes sense to hold a British woman born in 1956 responsible for the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the 30's and 40's, because ermagerd, the UK is part of Europe! By this logic, Avigdor Lieberman is just as responsible for the Holocaust and for the Gulags, being not just European himself, but also Soviet.
Do you also think using the Holocaust as a toy, a trivial plaything to trot out every single time you don't get your way, is a respectful approach to the mass destruction of humanity it represents? After all, that's what Lieberman's doing, and you think he has a point. Don't get the resolution you want in the UN? It's just like the Holocaust. Don't get a free pass on violating international treaties you signed? Gosh, that's what Auschwitz must have felt like. Run out of peanut butter? Just one more thing you have in common with Anne Frank, I guess! If you can't fathom why this is vile, well... you have no room to be talking about who has what "moral capital"
Lieberman has no point, he's simply making an especially grotesque attempt at the Chewbacca Defense. Don't carry water for him, it makes you look bad.