Nothing she said was "wrong" or a "misunderstanding".
Yes, 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. So too were 5 million others. They were Catholics, Protestants, Gays, Developmentally Disabled, Socialists, Labor organizers and anybody who was deemed "Enemies of The State". 11 million people; human beings were systematically and tragically murdered by the Nazis over several countries in Europe.
And EVERY. ONE. OF. THOSE. LIVES. MATTERED. Every one of those lives had meaning.
The Nazis had their views on "race"; so did everybody else in the "civilized world" And they implemented their genocidal policies based on those views. So did the United States, Great Britain, France, and even The Soviet Union. And you know what? They were all wrong.
From a scientific view, there is no such thing as race. Let me repeat: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE. It is a social construct; it's made up. That was pretty much known even in Darwin's time.
If you're Jewish and you're offended, I don't know why. She didn't deny that it happened like so many Holocaust denialists. She correctly said that it wasn't about "race" and she was right. It was about the Nazis wanting to expand their territories. As an aside, the Nazis thought the Chinese and Japanese were "honorary Aryans". This at the same time Americans considering them as "inferior" and locking them up in concentration camps. She was absolutely right; this is an example of "Man's inhumanity to man", as it was with the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, the Belgian rule in the Congo, The British concentration camps of Boers in South Africa (where the practice began), the genocidal policies of the U.S. against the indigenous peoples, the Turkish annihilation of Armenians and so and so on. Nobody has a monopoly on suffering; one people's suffering is not a negation of somebody else's.
If you go to the Bronx Zoo and look in one of the animal exhibits (which I think the practice is barbaric) you will see a display of "The Most Dangerous Animal In The World". It's a mirror.
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