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“Holocaust Obsessed”
There is an odd term being thrown about – Holocaust Obsessed. It’s used by leftists to try and paint anyone concerned with a second holocaust, which is a very real possibility in today’s political climate, as “crazy.”
Try and get away with the term “slavery obsessed.”
It’s the new fashionable meme for those who don’t want to be overly troubled by the memory of the death camps and looming threats of a second holocaust. The term enables those who use it to suggest that those more concerned than they are “obsessed” in an unseemly way.
It’s the word “obsessed” that seems problematic to me. It implies a bright line between legitimate interest and something else, something over-intense, feverish, and counterproductive. But where is that line? How much time should we spend worrying about the threat of future Holocausts and genocides, not just those involving Jews.
The much-lauded German novelist W.G. Sebald has been quoted saying “no serious person thinks of anything else.” This was obviously a form of hyperbole designed to jolt people out of complacency. But it raises the question: How much does a serious person think about the Holocaust? What does it mean to be “obsessed” and what does it mean to give the Holocaust an appropriate place in our political and cultural consciousness?
I admit I was stunned in exploring this question to find no less than 272,000 Google hits for “obsessed with the Holocaust.” And it’s not just racist sites (including David Duke’s) or anti-Zionist sites like Mondoweiss.
Increasingly the word “obsessed”—as “obsessed with the holocaust” or “holocaust obsessed”—has entered contemporary discourse, often used by Jews as an epithet to describe other Jews. It may have entered the mainstream as far back as the publication of Peter Novick’s 1999 book The Holocaust in American Life, in which he accuses American Jews as a whole of exploiting the Holocaust in bad faith, either as a “victimization Olympics” or for political (primarily pro-Israel) purposes.
The term “holocaust-obsessed” appeared in The New Yorker in an article about Israeli politician Avraham Burg who, according to David Remnick, “describes the country in its current state as Holocaust obsessed. …” Too much attention to the extermination of 6 million Jews oh so long ago, just because 6 million or so more are being threatened with exterminationist rhetoric today.
Absolute muddjuice
August 25th, 2012
I’m obsessed with the holocaust not ever happening again. Not in my America. Not ever…..
The Doktor
August 25th, 2012
Obsessed? When there is a person who has created a following (along with his very own logo/symbol) of Ignorant Masses who never bother to actually SEE who the man really is? When the HATRED spewing from “this man” is so akin to the likes of the evil one along with his “followers” in the early 30s? When the attempted (AND ACTUAL) control of businesses and people seem almost identical between Nazi Germany and our once great country under “the man calling himself Obama”?
No, not obsession. Reality striking us in the face. People ignore it at their peril.
MADJACK
August 25th, 2012
Holocaust Obsessed??? Why yes I am. If Islam and the Left are to have their way the Holocaust will be rewritten in history as the time the Jews tried to rule the world and were mercifully overthrown by Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Yes I proudly stand with Israel and the Jews.
Six White Cadillacs
August 25th, 2012
Most of these types of progressively obsessed liberals claim that they want world peace, but they would rather put a shock collar on you and hit the button every time you mention a logical way that it might be achieved.
Blacksmith8✡
August 25th, 2012
Obsession is to intense loathing
just as
phobia is to recognition of a dangerous death cult.
Kind of funny to me how apparently I detest Hitler’s nazi Germany and completely expect to have a civil war in America against Sharia.
Weird huh?
Nutjob
August 25th, 2012
Holocaust obsessed?
Is that anything like Gay Obsession, heterophobia obsession, abortion obsession, media obsession, hollywood obsession, counterculture obsession, taboo obsessions, indoctrine obsession, anti-religious obsession, ant-white obsession, environmental obsession, mind control obsession, power obsession, other peoples health obsession, you owe me obsession, or other peoples wealth obsession?
just say’en
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
This is a preemptive strike–against those of us who recognize the dangers of Islam for what they really are. Fight back.
CrustyB
August 25th, 2012
“Condemned to repeat it” vs. “Godwin’s Law.”
Billy Fuster
August 25th, 2012
A “holocaust” can refer to any genocide. I visited Srebrenica and cried like a baby.
dba...vagabond trader
August 25th, 2012
Just when I think librals cannot sink any lower they come up with crap like this. A thinly disguised self loathing head fake to delegitimize Jews and their history.
Fck y’all.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 25th, 2012
It probably is a somewhat fair phrase. The Holocaust gets a lot more press than Rwanda, the Holodomor, the Armenian genocide, the Great Leap forward, the Japanese acts in WWII, the atrocities in the Balkans (both in the 90s, and during WWII) the slaughter of cracka-ass crackas in the southern African nations, the slaughter in the Congo, the Killing Fields, etc. Hell, it even gets more press than other WWII German-conducted genocides (gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs, Poles, etc.), what happened to Christian (and Jewish) populations in the Middle East, etc.
People do seem to get a bit more hung up on it than other mass killings. Probably in part because a lot of the survivors were educated and made records of their experiences; in part because it was the first one really exposed to the world in pictures/films; in part because there were so many witnesses to the camps; and in part because it happened in Europe, rather than in some more periperhal (for the time) place.
jwm
August 25th, 2012
If it were not for the big stick of America, the Holocaust would be replayed in every moslem nation on the planet.
JWM
Xavier
August 25th, 2012
Next up: Constitution obsessed, Freedom obsessed, Equality obsessed, Big Government obsessed, Budget obsessed, Privacy obsessed, Bill of Rights obsessed, Life obsessed, Truth obsessed.
I do intend to start using Race Obsessed as a term for detards, though.
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
@Roscoe–
I believe Billy Fuster said it well:
“A ‘holocaust’ can refer to any genocide.”
And I’m glad you listed many of the other genocides that we should never forget. Contrary to what the Left wants us to do.
Czar of Defenestration
August 25th, 2012
PHASE 1: Holocaust Obsessed
PHASE 2: Invalidated Jew
PHASE 3: Allaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 25th, 2012
@MaryfromMarin: ““A ‘holocaust’ can refer to any genocide.””
Fair enough, but “Holocaust” with a capital “H” is a specific noun, not a generic one. It’s “The Holocaust”, not “a holocaust”.
cfm990
August 25th, 2012
You want to call me Holocaust Obsessed? Well that’s just fine with me. I’ll wear it as a badge of honor. Because I’ll be damned, if I will sit by quietly and allow this to happen again.
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
@Roscoe–
IMO, the WWII Holocaust of the Jews is the only one their history-challenged minds can recall. Or it’s the only one they think matters to the world.
Either way, we should remember all of recorded history’s genocides, and not allow the Left to tell us what we should or should not “obsess” about.
Friend of the family
August 25th, 2012
It’s been said that when Hitler was finished with the Jews, he was going to come after the Christians. Well, the parallel of both Jews and Christians being persecuted at the same time, as it now exists in some countries (including our own), would have made that devil proud. Oh, there’s another holocaust coming–it’s final design and mechanisms just haven’t come into full fruition and won’t for a while. The hate’s got to build even more (much more than now). The Brown Shirts have to be sewn. And of course, the Antichrist has to be groomed for the occasion. This will be coupled with the saying of growing attention, “We are all worshiping the same god,” which will be used to help usher in the One World Religion led by the False Prophet (the Son-of-Perdition’s sidekick). Together they’ll eventually convince the nations that all the world’s problems stem from Jewish/Jude-Christian influence; the Antichrist will ultimately tell all religious leaders, including Muslims and even Rome to stuff it–proclaiming himself God!
Please God (my God, the real one), I don’t want to be here for that; or at least Lord, no torture. I’ll them to shove their “Mark” and take the guillotine.
Jethro
August 25th, 2012
If I ever hear someone use that term I promise to grab them by the ear and march them directly to the holocaust museum in DC.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/exhibit/
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/ssalbum/photos/77255.jpg
http://resources.ushmm.org/inquery/uia_doc.php/query/12?uf=uia_amSviX
dba...vagabond trader
August 25th, 2012
Why is the world so Jew obsessed? Personally I believe there is a mutant form of jealousy going on here. Waaaah, you’re holocaust wasn’t all that bad, mine was much worse. Look at the fakestinians and the nakba. So many are Holocaust deniers yet they want one of their own.
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
@Roscoe–
O/T, responding to a question you asked me on anther thread:
“Yahweh” and “Jehovah” are sort of like nicknames for God. The Hebrew word for “God” was unpronounceable, and these two names arose out of historical attempts to make it pronounceable. (Trust me on this–I studied Hebrew.)
Hindus have a pantheon of gods, and therefore are more closely aligned with the Greeks and the Romans. Buddhists do not have a “god”, although some Buddhists consider Buddha to be like a god (some Confucians are similar, in their understanding of Confucius; Confucianism itself has no official god).
“Allah” on the other hand is not, never was, and never will be God. Allah was a tribal “deity”–the moon god–which Mohammad promoted to solo godhood. (Wikipedia skirts around what Mohammad did–not surprisingly–but what it does say is interesting:
“In pre-Islamic Arabia amongst pagan Arabs, Allah was not considered the sole divinity, having associates and companions, sons and daughters–a concept that was deleted under the process of Islamization.” I’m surprised that section has survived Wikipedia purges.)
MaryfromMarin
August 25th, 2012
“anther”? What’s up with that? This isn’t about botany.
Sorry, @Roscoe.
svg1234
August 26th, 2012
Did you really have to provide links to the anti-semitic, racist, anti-Zionist sites? Don’t give them the additional hits.
charlotte
August 26th, 2012
I am proudly out as a Holocaust obsessed individual. I never understood how one vehemently obsessed sicko-psycho who hated Jews, could incite the whole of Europe to join him. It will happen again and soon, unless we are vigilant.
Nutjob
August 26th, 2012
Friend of the Family makes a good point.
Nazi-ism never has died. It just took on a differant name. The only differance between the pre-war nazis is the olive skinned branch in the middle east was allowed to fester.
The Grand Mufti was recruited and was supplied weapons by Hitler to be his middle eastern branch of jew killers.
He started the muslim brotherhood and was intstrumental in the arab wars against srael. When he couldn’t get committment from arab nations he used the pulpit of hate via the muslim brotherhood.
Arafat took over this hatred and since then several more branches have sprouted from the brotherhood, hezbollah, hamas, islamic jihaad,al quaida, the taliban.
But yet the lefties want to negotiate with these killers and countries who’ve declared jews as enemies who plot to kill jews and condemn jews…….just more proof the left are nazis, nazi supporters, and anti-semites.
Tim
August 26th, 2012
Turks murdered 1 million Armenians early last century.
Stalin murdered 33 million Ukrainians through the 30s.
Soviets sent millions into the Gulag to die anonymously.
Hitler murdered 13 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Catholics, 7th Day Adventists, and others in the 40s.
Mao murdered 80 million heathen Chinese through the 50s.
But to remember is obsession?
piñata pimp cane
August 26th, 2012
I worked for a Belgium Jew who’s father survived the death camps. One day the father told me about the nazis pulling all of his teeth out with pliers.
It is not obsession, it is something that sticks in your mind for the rest of your life if you have a heart and a brain.
GW Bear
August 26th, 2012
What I don’t understand is how after all of this and the fact that the Ohole and his evil minions are some of the biggest Holocaust deniers that any person of the Jewish faith could vote for this asswipe and still look at themsleves in the mirror?
The same with anyone who owns even one weapon, how could you ever vote for a liberal?
I fear for our future.