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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world -3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

and was only later appropriated into the proper noun you reference to describe the Nazi’s systematic persecution and extermination of Jews, Poles, Romani and other ‘undesirable’ minority groups.

Yes, that’s my point.

After 1930 it became a proper noun. We’re not speaking Ancient Greek and it’s after the 1930s.

I see Lemmy is filling up with people (not you, the downvote brigade that exists around politically charged topics) who conflate disagreement about minor issues with being on the other side of the argument. Nuance isn’t Ancient Greek either, but you’d think it was given the way people react on social media.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Other meanings don't magically get removed when a term is used to describe a realatively new event.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I guess it will have to be appropriated again to also describe the Palestinian holocaust. Their plight is even worse than the Jews IMO, because their whole country became the concentration and extermination camp. They deserve it more.