• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    It’s really funny to see Turks having a problem with putting themselves into the “repentant perpetrator” and not “potential victim” role, though.

    Typical German behavior on the Holocaust is problematic in the sense that they put their own shame above the reality and possibility of other real genocides, some happening now. So if their repentance means endorsing a genocide committed by someone else - it’s fine, their repentance is more important for them.

    So moral play is made more important than moral action, or even than refraining from immoral action.

    EDIT: Ah, and if you are in conflict with this worldview of theirs and you are Jewish, - no, they are not going to shut up.

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      7 months ago

      It’s really funny to see Turks having a problem with putting themselves into the “repentant perpetrator” and not “potential victim” role, though.

      as someone whose ethnic group was nearly exterminated by the Turks, yeah lol…

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        7 months ago

        Same here.

        Which is a bad pattern really, that most people irritated by such moments have a personal connection.