Originally Posted by
yzb25
What even is a real issue though? Excuse my curtness, but the holocaust has already happened. Whether people acknowledge it has everything to do with "respect" more than anything else. You can try to make some slippery slope argument about how enough people not acknowledging it may lead to the same mistakes being made again but ppl don't need to acknowledge the existence of the holocaust to understand the process of genocides in general (othering, dehumanization, extermination, denial). I'm confused as to how you can appreciate this as bad but not appreciate the genocidal undertones of the various ways in which the US has historically (and continues to) piss over Native American culture.