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I thought about addressing this strictly to @AYJANIBRAHIMOV@lemmygrad.ml, but I think that you should all see it, because part of the reason that I study Fascism and regularly invite you all to learn more about it is the Shoah.
Admittedly, I can’t say that it is the only reason: I did not get to work immediately after I saw the 6 million statistic for the first time (as epic as that would have been). Rather, it was a gradual process: it took a good deal of maturity on my part, and it was only in 2017 that I really took fascism and neofascism seriously and began studying them thoroughly. As I read about these atrocities and viewed depictions of them, that was when the millions felt like more than another statistic to me.
I think that for most of us the Shoah is already one of the many reasons why we oppose fascism and neofascism, only we rarely say it out loud since it seems pretty obvious, and maybe a few of us are worried about coming across as pretentious or condescending white knights for saying ‘I want to protect Jews’. Still, it is a debt that deserves at least a little acknowledging: my compassion for Jewish people is an important reason why I do this work. It may be hard to tell when I am talking about banana cultivation in Somalia or the Imperial abuse of Nanking—matters that seem completely unrelated—but that I’m taking note of wherever this tragedy leads me only shows that it means so much to me.