Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Holocaust history

We learn the history of the Holocaust not just to remember the victims, but to prevent it from happening again. “Never again” is a call to ceaseless, eternal action. It is a call to recognize the trajectory of genocide •before• we reach the worst, to recognize that we are still in those precious years before, and to recognize that a Final Solution is coming again, unless •we• stop it.

And the way we stop it is not by making the concentration camp guards sit through a Powerpoint deck on de-escalation.

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Martin Vermeer FCD @martinvermeer@fediscience.org
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Holocaust history

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Precisely. This is also the spirit of the UN Genocide Convention of 1948, with its focus on genocidal intent. Every genocide starts with words. That is the time to act.

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Martin Vermeer FCD (@martinvermeer@fediscience.org)

@piersuncensored@bird.makeup @jconricus@bird.makeup @abbymartin@bird.makeup @piersmorgan@bird.makeup Yes, sure. Let's wait until the ICJ gets around to establishing in a legally airtight way that a genocide has indeed been consummated, before accepting that that's the case... or we can follow the _intent_ of the UN Genocide Convention, to prevent or interrupt the _ongoing_ genocide, as witnessed by the centrality of its notion of 'genocidal intent'. Every genocide starts with words, and _that_ is the time to act. https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/113389645913756723

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