Lots of chit chat on reddit regarding the LA Holocaust’s museum now taken down IG post that said “Never Again’ can’t only mean Never Again for Jews.”
A lot of bad actors are jumping on this news item to pump out their run-of-the-mill antisemitic agitprop slop. But there also are a few well-intentioned users asking “what’s the problem with this post?” “Shouldn’t “Never Again” apply to EVERYONE?” “Why do the Jews alone have special use of the slogan?”
So here’s the answer:
“Never Again” is a vow by Jews made in the shadow of the Shoah to ourselves and to our children and grandchildren that we will do everything in our power to prevent a Holocaust from happening to us again. It is not a slogan waiting to be repurposed into lessons about tolerance and human rights.
That doesn’t mean Jews are indifferent to the suffering of others. On the contrary: Jewish communities have often been at the forefront of fighting for justice and against oppression. But there is a difference between standing in solidarity with others and erasing or diluting the particularity of Jewish trauma or (as Dara Horn puts it) using the murder of millions of Jews as “a morality play, a bumper sticker, a metaphor.”
submitted by /u/sand-doo9
[link] [comments]
Source: Reditt
