jews try and explain how intergenerational trauma works and functions in our families + communities and white gentiles r still like “so you get intergenerational trauma when anything bad has previously happened to any group of people like you??”
like i don’t know how to get y’all to stop wrapping your head around how these kinds of numbers affect a marginalized group:
a third of all Jews on the FACE OF THE EARTH died within a few years
like there’s just such a comprehensive failure to understand or empathize with what exactly that means. how many communities were destroyed, how many families were destroyed, how our languages were destroyed because most of the speakers were murdered, how many children grew up in the wake of this trauma, what it’s like to try and parent in the aftermath of a genocide that kills a third of your people (two thirds of all european Jews!), what it’s like to have the spectre of this hung over your head every single day from childhood
There’s this complete disconnect that a lot of non-Jewish gadje have about exactly what the Samudaripen (Holocaust) DID to our two populations. Like, there are entire subgroups that just don’t exist anymore… Seeing these numbers makes my heart hurt.
As an atheist, it‘s very interesting to see how theists still believe in (and worship) their god, after such horrible things happen to them and their community. I thought their god would protect them…?
Okay, first of all, the Holocaust was a racially based genocide. Hitler and the Third Reich weren’t killing Jews because of theological issues. He believed that Jews (along with the Romani people) as a race were inferior and impure. Racial purity was also why other groups of victims were targeting.
Second of all, and more importantly, you are a horrible and disgusting human being. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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