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well - there's an ongoing major genocide happening in Gaza that unfortunately no longer pales in comparison. It's not up there yet, and let's hope it never gets there, but I definitely see the point of the question of the previous comment.
Holocaust is the name of a particular genocide.
All thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs kind of situation.
I'm not sure they're really comparable. The Holocaust was industrialized murder on racial grounds. Gaza and the West Bank are more like the genocide of the Native Americans. A sort of "Give us the land you're sitting on, or die. I don't care where you go" as opposed to "I'm going to kill you. No there's nothing you can do. You are the wrong race and must die"
I don’t even think that’s as much of a distinction as you think.
In 1930s Germany, the Nazi platform was “We’re going to relocate these Jews. We’ll make some kind of settlement for them, or shift them to other nations, who knows.”
Maybe at the end of the war the Holocaust - their “final solution” for the relocation problem was made clear, but even then anyone could have raised questions about where there were going.
Political excuses like “Relocation” are extremely common for Genocide.
The 'relocation' wasn't based on anything the Jews had that the Nazis wanted though, not in terms of physical land anyway. Wealth, sure, but the Nazis weren't going after Jews because they had money. The Slavs were gone after for land, definitely, because the Nazis wanted all the land to the east and were happy to just murder anyone and everyone living on it, but even that was based on genetics because the Nazis believed the Slavs to be an inferior species.
Again, what Israel is doing is definitely genocide, there's no arguments there, but it's not the same as the Holocaust. There's a reason the Holocaust is seen as more evil than the Holodomor, and it's because of the sheer industrial evil of it all. A systematic extermination of a people based purely on genetics has some extra weight to it.
That's not entirely matching what I learned from history books. The German Nazis absolutely commit robber/murders. They just extended their murder spree to those of the same ethnicity and other "out-groups" who didn't own anything to steal.
No argument there, note my original wording "it no longer pales in comparison". The Gaza genocide already has millions of victims and tens of thousands of murdered palestinians. That's unfortunately starting to become visible even on a scale that takes the Holocaust as reference.
It wasn't "Those people have money, therefore we shall rob them" though. It was "Those people are Jews, therefore they deserve to get robbed". They were an acceptable target because they were Jewish, not because they had any money.
Well. Partially it was exactly that though. One of the roots of European antisemitism is that christians were not allowed to take interest on money loans, and jews were not allowed to do many jobs, but by faith could take interest from non-jews. It's kind of convenient to find an excuse why people you owe money to are "sub-human" and should be murdered. And that was also a factor in Nazi-Germany.
The Nazis found all sorts of excuses.
If the Israelis truly didn't care where the Palestinians went, they wouldn't be confining them to a 25-mile long open air prison. Extermination is the goal.
You're ignoring the West Bank. Palestine is not just Gaza.
What's your point?
Palestinians in Gaza are not allowed to freely travel to the West Bank.
You're making a lot of claims about what's going on in Gaza and making huge, sweeping statements that attempt to correlate Palestinians' experience with others in history. I recommend you read about what is actually going on in Gaza before continuing. You seem ignorant about some of their most basic and fundamental struggles.
My point is the genocide of the Palestinians is more than just Gaza. The bombing of Gazans is a war crime, yes, but that in and of itself is not genocide. The settlements in the West Bank and overall encroachment on Palestinian territory is genocide, and that's been going on for decades. If Israel and Egypt suddenly allowed people to leave Gaza and go to the West Bank, it wouldn't stop the genocide, nor would stopping the bombing or the killings in Gaza, because the fact that Israel is allowing their colonists to displace Palestinians at all is enough to say that their intent is genocidal in nature.
You're so caught up in the emotive rhetoric about Gaza that you're ignoring the actual issue at hand. It's like if the bombings weren't happening at all, you wouldn't actually give a shit.
Yeah let's ask Egypt if they would take them
Imagine believing this is a reasonable distinction.
Nobody said it's reasonable. It is a distinction, tho.
It's a really important distinction if you're not a moron. The Nazis rounded up undesireables and killed them. There was no 'loyalty', there was nothing those undesireables could have done that would have changed what, in the eyes of the Nazi regime, should have happened to them. They were rounded up, shipped off to camps and exterminated, based purely on their genetics or even perceived genetics.
What Israel is doing is genocide, but it's not the same as The Holocaust. Israel has a Palestinian population inside its borders, they have voting rights, they have seats in their Parliament. The Nazi Regime would have never allowed ANY of their chosen undesireables to have any representation, because the entire purpose of the undesireables was to be killed.
Now, compare what Israel is doing to Palestinians to what the US Colonies did to the Native Americans, and suddenly it's a lot more comparable. The Colonists showed up, took land, forced the Native Americans out, and if the Natives resisted in any way, they were murdered. Any attacks on Colonists by Natives were met with overwhelming force and wholesale massacres of Native populations. Sounds a bit similar to Gaza, doesn't it? Americans just don't like to make the comparison because then it suddenly puts them in the genocidal hot seat.