jewish-privilege:
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Today we remember the more than 11 million people, Jewish and Gentile, who were slaughtered in the death camps, who succumbed to disease and the elements in concentration camps, who were sterilized to prevent the “dilution” of the “Aryan race,” who were worked to death, or nearly, in the works camps, who were imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs, who were sterilized or killed for being considered disabled, who were gassed to death in the Einsatzgruppen mobile gas chambers, who were shot into graves they had been forced the dig, and those who managed to survive all of that and were forced to remember the horrors they had seen and experienced.
May they rest in peace, may their memory be a blessing, may peace be upon them, and may we all say Never Again.
#please don’t forget about homosexuals and poc
This is the last time I’m going to say this… People of Color weren’t victims of the Holocaust.
People of Color is a modern, American term. Using PoC to refer to any victim class of the Holocaust is ahistorical, erasive, American centric, and arguably imperialistic.
Anyone who has reblogged this post with “what about” and “don’t forget about” has shown their ignorance about what happened during the Holocaust by the Third Reich. Although I didn’t specifically name each victim class in this post from last year (2016), I did separately discuss how all the different groups who were targeted during the Holocaust were victimized. “Homosexuals” (non-Jewish or Romani gay men) who refused to pretend to be straight were sterilized and interned in concentration camps (not death camps) so that they wouldn’t “dilute” the “Aryan race.” This was detailed in my OP above. If you have replied with “what about” and “don’t forget about,” I can’t help but assume you either didn’t read the post or did and are ignorant to the atrocities of the Third Reich.
I’m also going to go ahead and say it’s casually antisemitic and anti Romani. You’re implying Jewish and Romani people who were killed during the Holocaust by a white supremacist regime for not being white and racially pure were actually white. Jewish and Romani people weren’t white, no matter how we’re racialized today in the United States, to Nazis during the Third Reich. (Whether we’re white now in the US is another argument for another day.)
Nazis killed us because we weren’t white and the Holocaust was a genocide founded on white supremacy and racial purity.
All victims and survivors of the Holocaust deserve to be remembered, but with that comes the obligation to remember their suffering truthfully.