• Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      It’s similar in that the British did a lot to stoke up religious/ethnic conflict before losing control of the situation and withdrawing. There is a religious dynamic for sure, but would we define the Holocaust as a ‘religious conflict’?

      Pre-colonialism, Indians of different religious identities managed to live together, and to forge identities that cut across religions. The Raj destroyed that, and the damage is still obvious to this day.

      • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        6 days ago

        but would we define the Holocaust as a ‘religious conflict’?

        No but for many more reasons. Nazis didn’t care much about religion they were primarily racists hence the term “antisemitism” and not “anti-judaism” or something. You could be a Christian with a Jewish grandmother and they would deport you because they only care that you “are a semite” which makes you an automatic member of the conspiracy against the “aryan race”

        • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          14·
          6 days ago

          Ok but then in the case of Israel you have what happened to the Ethiopian Jews, and, while I’m far from an expert on modern-day India, I doubt very much that persecution is happening along purely theological lines because that’s literally never how it works - it’s always a cypher for something else

          • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            You’re right, I guess I just wanted to take a jab to Isn’treal white settlers painting themselves as Holocaust survivors because they converted to Judaism shrug-outta-hecks