The NUS has lit up the Twitters again.
The National Union of Students caused widespread outrage on Wednesday after students applauded motions not to commemorate the Holocaust, because doing so isn’t ‘inclusive’.
Inclusive of – ? Nazis? Hitler’s memory? People who hate Jews? People who love genocide?
The motion to remember the Holocaust did end up passing, but what is this idea that commemorating it isn’t inclusive? Are the applauding students worried about the feelings of people who like to see whole populations wiped out?
An amendment to a motion combating anti-Semitism on campuses argued that “education is vital”.
They said the NUS should organise campuses into creating events on Holocause Memorial Day.
Darta Kaleja, from Chester University, shocked many by speaking against the amendment.
She told the conference: “I am against the NUS ignoring and forgetting other mass genocides and prioritising others.
“It suggests some lives are more important than others.
“When during my education was I taught about the genocides in Tibet or Rwanda?
“It is important to commemorate all of them.”
If no part of her education told her about the genocide in Rwanda, that’s shocking – but it’s not a reason to oppose commemorating the very large genocide perpetrated by the Nazis.
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6 responses to ““It suggests some lives are more important than others””
What a baffling attitude these nitwits have. “Commemorate them all at once or none of them ever” simply means none will ever happen. No days to single anything out, because singling anything out at all is interpreted as elevating that thing above all other things in that category. The alternative is to have a day commemorating… everything at once? Making it utterly incoherent.
And, of course, if you look at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s website, it says this:
Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, and Cambodia are mentioned on the first page.
In other words “The murder of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of others is the headline, but other genocides are also memorialised, explicitly and implicitly.”
It couldn’t get much more inclusive.
NO no, silly children, the ‘Left’ is now in solidarity with the German Working Class of 1933-45. Just as they were the day the Hitler/Stalin pact was signed, and as they suddenly weren’t when the tanks rolled into Stalin’s front yard.
Enzyme @ 2,
But don’t confuse her with the facts.
Or the abominable history of where she came from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Latvia
A commenter on NUS politics:
Also, the Holocaust itself includes victims who were not only Jewish but alternatively: Romani, Slavic, homosexual, and other groups I’ve forgotten. I believe quite a few disabled people were murdered, too, but in care homes, not camps. The Germans were ready to get rid of a lot of unwanted people.
Wait, who exactly urged people not to commemorate the Holocaust?
From The Jerusalem Post, quoting NUS member Darta Kaleja of Chester U
From Huffington Post UK