It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    2 days ago

    He’s been repeating Nazi propaganda for over a decade now about LGBTQ and immigrants…

    One of the big dangers of ignoring the ~11,000,000 Holocaust victims who weren’t Jewish, is neonazis have been relatively free to keep going as long as they don’t focus on Jewish people.

    Just like the first time tho, once they have the numbers they’ll go after more groups, but it’s hard to argue LGBTQ hasn’t been their primary target this time.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        2 days ago

        While the term Holocaust generally refers to the systematic mass-murder of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, the Nazis also murdered a large number of non-Jewish people who were also considered subhuman (Untermenschen) or undesirable. Some victims belonged to several categories targeted for extermination, e.g. an assimilated Jew who was a member of a communist party or someone of Jewish ancestry who identified as a Jehovah’s Witness.

        Non-Jewish victims of Nazism included Slavs (e.g. Russians, Belarusians,[16] Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs), the Romani (gypsies), homosexual men;[a][17] people with mental or physical disabilities;[b] Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Spanish Republicans, Freemasons,[c] Black Europeans (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called “Rhineland Bastards” by Hitler and the Nazi regime), and other minorities not considered Aryan (Herrenvolk, or part of the “master race”);[d] leftists, communists, trade unionists, capitalists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents who disagreed with the Nazi regime.[18][19][20][21][22]

        Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews and an additional 11 million people during the war. Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of 17 million victims.[23]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            2 days ago

            6 million is > 11 million

            The alligator eats the biggest number…

            The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the right, >, has been found in documents dated as far back as 1631.[1] In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number. Examples of typical usage include 1.5 > 1 and 1 > −2. The less-than sign and greater-than sign always “point” to the smaller number.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign

            Edit:

            Now that we’ve got that right, and you’ve edited your comments to be the right symbol:

            Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews and an additional 11 million people during the war. Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of 17 million victims.[23]

            I believe eventually we’ll get this straightened out