An incredibly inclusive group
It turns out that we have it all wrong, the Trumpets are an incredibly inclusive buncha folks.
The White House statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day didn’t mention Jews or anti-Semitism because “despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered,” administration spokeswoman Hope Hicks told CNN on Saturday.
Right down to the little children in Omaha who had to cut way back on candy for the duration.
Hicks provided a link to a Huffington Post UK story noting that while 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, 5 million others were also slaughtered during Adolf Hitler’s genocide, including “priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters.”
Notice that if you divide those groups into 5 million you inevitably get a significantly smaller number than 6 million for any one group…but anyway…
Anti-Defamation League Director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted that the “@WhiteHouse statement on #HolocaustMemorialDay, misses that it was six million Jews who perished, not just ‘innocent people'” and “Puzzling and troubling @WhiteHouse #HolocaustMemorialDay stmt has no mention of Jews. GOP and Dem. presidents have done so in the past.”
Asked about the White House explanation that the President didn’t want to exclude any of the other groups Nazis killed by specifically mentioning Jews, Greenblatt told CNN that the United Nations established International Holocaust Remembrance Day not only because of Holocaust denial but also because so many countries — Iran, Russia, Poland, and Hungary, for example — specifically refuse to acknowledge Hitler’s attempt to exterminate Jews, “opting instead to talk about generic suffering rather than recognizing this catastrophic incident for what is was: the intended genocide of the Jewish people.”
Downplaying or disregarding the degree to which Jews were targeted for elimination during the Holocaust is a common theme of nationalist movements like those seen in Russia and Eastern Europe, Greenblatt said.
And on Breitbart.
We have a far-right white nationalist racist Holocaust-denying government now.
Just as an addendum to the filth, not a claim to “top oppression”: Notice that they conspicuously avoided mentioning homosexuals, too.
Ah yes, so they did.
All Victims’ Lives Matter.
Wow. Josh isn’t kidding about the “conspicuously”. From the OP:
From the actual Huffington Post story:
And if you click on the link you see the first sub-head is “GAY PEOPLE”.
This is what an inclusive, appropriate, and eloquent speech in remembrance of the Holocaust looks like.
A particularly good part: