It’s REALLY important to know about the holocaust if you’re jewish or have jewish ancestry, but arguably safer or at least more pleasant not to if you don’t.
If anything, my impression is that knowing about the Holocaust has made my mother significantly less realistic with respect to assessing potential threats faced by Jews in the present day.
On the other hand, to the extent that it represents a general lesson about human behavior, that understanding might end up being valuable for anyone. Being non-Jewish may actually make it easier to properly generalize the principles rather than thinking of it in terms of unique identity politics.
It’s worth knowing that societies can just start targeting people for no reason. It can be hard to have a sense of proportion about risks.
I suspect the best strategy is to become such a distinguished person that more than one country will welcome you, but the details are left as an exercise for the student.
this is possible but I meant knowing about the holocaust as it’s ongoing, like lumifer’s example of knowing about gulags while living in soviet russia.
If anything, my impression is that knowing about the Holocaust has made my mother significantly less realistic with respect to assessing potential threats faced by Jews in the present day.
If anything, my impression is that knowing about the Holocaust has made my mother significantly less realistic with respect to assessing potential threats faced by Jews in the present day.
On the other hand, to the extent that it represents a general lesson about human behavior, that understanding might end up being valuable for anyone. Being non-Jewish may actually make it easier to properly generalize the principles rather than thinking of it in terms of unique identity politics.
It’s worth knowing that societies can just start targeting people for no reason. It can be hard to have a sense of proportion about risks.
I suspect the best strategy is to become such a distinguished person that more than one country will welcome you, but the details are left as an exercise for the student.
this is possible but I meant knowing about the holocaust as it’s ongoing, like lumifer’s example of knowing about gulags while living in soviet russia.
I think he meant in Nazi Germany, not today.