A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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  • Yeah, you have a point there. I mean if I were you, I’d be a bit more careful, some people are pedantic with the details. You really can’t say things like “anti-semitism is far from one of the top most harmful forms of racial discrimination”. Or the prasing you used for the 40s. Because jews aren’t a race. So it’s not racism. The jewish people always have been made up of different ethnicities. And for example Einstein didn’t have a different skin color or race than any other German or American (I believe). Same applies to a lot of other jews.

    (And secondly I’m not sure what even to make of all of those comparisons. Generally they’re used to argue against someone. But it’s true that antisemitism isn’t the only issue on earth. We regularly also have atrocities in other places. Or millions of people are slaughtered or starve in Africa. Media reports on that for 3 days and then we forget. But what’s the point here?)


  • I’m pretty sure the nazis killed jewish people because they really hated specifically them. And that had been brooding in Hitler for quite some time already. And then “cleaning” the race was on their agenda, they were big into racism and genocide. It didn’t even stop with the Gypsies. They also killed disabled people, “asocial” people, homosexuals, Jehova’s witnesses, people opposing them, communists and generally a lot of civillians. Other coordinated efforts without death camps include killing most of the intellectuals in Poland, letting millions of people in the Sovjet Union starve to death. And then we get the regular war on top and those victims.

    I think whataboutism or comparing those atrocities might be problematic, unless you offer some context and have something specific in mind.