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Message: [QUOTE="taubstumm, post: 1797861, member: 1736"] There’s a lot to say in response to what you’ve raised. it might be getting to maybe beyond messageboard-level chats. When I say “intended target”, I mean that Hitler basically laid out a plan in Mein Kampf to try to kill every jewish person in Europe, and then he went and did it. This is the reason for the centrality of the jewish experience in the holocaust. but just to be clear, I’m not trying to invalidate, minimise, or relativise what happened that preceded that. This is all in the context of almost unspeakably grim reality of that entire time, and, again, to be clear, it does not invalidate the fact that the nazis began with disabled people. (indeed, it also makes sense to go back a little further and consider the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide']Herero genocide[/URL], which was basically the technical research phase that made the holocaust possible — and, politically, was an imperial project, not a nazi one). I hope I’m being clear here; we all know that this is a subject that can get pretty fraught. Let me know if you think I’m being unclear, or unfair, or imprecise. I’m trying to make a fairly narrow point, which I know can be interpreted more broadly than intended. That’s not my intention. [/QUOTE]