Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, thought she had a gotcha on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this. https://t.co/NX5KPPb2Hl
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 18, 2019
It’s Cheney who needs to learn some history. The Nazis didn’t go from zero to Auschwitz in 30 seconds; it took them years to get to Auschwitz. It was a process, with stages. Herding people into camps was an early stage. Trump is putting us at that stage. There is no magic mechanism guaranteeing that we won’t go on to further stages. That’s AOC’s point, and it’s dishonest and malevolent of Cheney to pretend not to get it.
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There are terms that some people feel are morally copyrighted.
Even after the release of The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls*, many Canadians still refuse to accept use of the term genocide in relation to the historical treatment of first peoples, because to acknowledge that the methodologies employed by Canadian governments were aimed at genocide, would mean that certain other governments are engaged in ongoing acts of genocide.
Cheney’s response is blowhard-typical of those who support certain of those other governments.
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https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/