I wasn’t comparing. The person before me made a generalized statement. I used an example to contradict their statement.
Besides, the technology that came out of the Holocaust, gas chambers, without a doubt is used on a large scale today in exterminating domesticated animals. See this trailer for a documentary whose creator place cameras inside a pig gas chamber.
And fuck you. Let me guess, you’re someone who doesn’t compared the Holocaust to what’s happening in Palestine because it isn’t 1-to-1
The former involves eradicating the entire ethnic population of a region. The latter involves eradicating a continuously regenerating population of victims, bred for slaughter.
In fact, animal slaughter might be worse than genocide if you think that humans control certain domesticated animals species to be bred to die. With genocide, the idea isn’t to regenerate the ethnic population: it’s to get rid of them for good.
The tactics used to accomplish the two are exactly the same, if only in tone of force used. We don’t use bombs to slaughter animals, but we do cut their throats, shoot them, make them feel fear, kick them, gas them. With genocides, it’s the bombs, bullets, and gas chambers that have historically and contemporarily executed genocide. Between both cases, however, is violence done to helpless populations with no capacity for self defense.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I wasn’t comparing. The person before me made a generalized statement. I used an example to contradict their statement.
Besides, the technology that came out of the Holocaust, gas chambers, without a doubt is used on a large scale today in exterminating domesticated animals. See this trailer for a documentary whose creator place cameras inside a pig gas chamber.
And fuck you. Let me guess, you’re someone who doesn’t compared the Holocaust to what’s happening in Palestine because it isn’t 1-to-1
stratoscaster@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nah, I’m pro Palestine. I just think comparing the genocide to animal slaughter is a little tone deaf.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
How is genocide different than animal slaughter?
The former involves eradicating the entire ethnic population of a region. The latter involves eradicating a continuously regenerating population of victims, bred for slaughter.
In fact, animal slaughter might be worse than genocide if you think that humans control certain domesticated animals species to be bred to die. With genocide, the idea isn’t to regenerate the ethnic population: it’s to get rid of them for good.
The tactics used to accomplish the two are exactly the same, if only in tone of force used. We don’t use bombs to slaughter animals, but we do cut their throats, shoot them, make them feel fear, kick them, gas them. With genocides, it’s the bombs, bullets, and gas chambers that have historically and contemporarily executed genocide. Between both cases, however, is violence done to helpless populations with no capacity for self defense.