#cw holocaust
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
11 million+ murdered. Jews, Roma, Sinti, the disabled, queer folks (mostly homosexual men), Soviet POWs, Slavs, political prisoners…
It seems so long ago. It wasn’t. My great aunts were there, my grandmother (z”l) was there. This happened in the modern world, in living memory.
Stand up. Fight back. Never forget. Never again.
Why should I care about you? You don’t care about how atheists are mistreated and instead just lump us in with Christians.
Why should I fight for you when you wouldn’t do the same for me?
This really is a masterclass in Western Athiest morality. All the righteous fury of an evangelical and the rootless nihilism of Western Capitalism. Maybe you don’t care about the Jews or the other groups the Nazis would kill, but think about this: a Nazi takeover would almost assuredly delay or cancel the next Marvel/Star Wars/Harry Potter movie. That’s enough to get every Western atheist in America forming militias right there
Again why should I care about anyone that doesn’t care about me? Op would gladly watch me die. She already doesn’t care about atheists getting killed all over the world.
Wow, leave the internet for a couple of days to handle things in meat space, and people start saying exactly what they mean. Good to know. I should try that at work.
Dude, I have no problem with atheists. I genuinely do not care if you believe in a deity or not. I never have. And, as I have mentioned, multiple times, atheists also can face persecution in various countries to include my own. To use a phrase common in my day job: what evidence do you have?
However:
1) An atheist raised in a Christian hegemonic country is still inculcated with Christian worldviews and culture whether they themselves are Christian or not.
2) Structures built under Christian hegemony disadvantage, on a systemic level, people with minority religious cultures (including those that are atheist) to a greater degree than others. Including other atheists.
3) To equate the non-systemic oppression of individual atheists in the west to the Holocaust, which resulted in the death of 11 million people regardless of faith (at the hands of an officially secular state no less), shows you for who you really are. It’s amazing how many fascists wear leftist hats these days.
I’ve never wished harm on atheists of any cultural background, I simply point out how much of the culture of the west is steeped in Christianity. Your discomfort with acknowledging that says nothing about me.
I am willing to entertain a fair amount of debate, but debate with those who “don’t care” about the Holocaust (which, again, murdered 11 million people) because they dislike one Jew? No. Get the fuck out. Enjoy the block, it’ll begin in one hour to give you time to read this. And don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, the door doesn’t deserve that.
