Dragon
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- Sep 16, 2011
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Comparing the [victims of our current economic downturn] to victims of the holocaust is a gargantuan stretch
Well, on the one hand you had more intense suffering and mass murder compared to mere impoverishment, but on the other a much larger number of victims (over a hundred million compared to just eleven million). In that sense it's only a little stretch.
The point, though, is that the idea that everyone is absolutely responsible for his or her own circumstances and shit doesn't happen and the rules of the game and who sets them and on behalf of whom don't matter, is obviously and demonstrably wrong.