The One and the Many - On Comparing the Holocaust
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- May 1, 2022
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Sources Journal - James Loeffler - Spring 2022
"Ours is an age of analogies. The Holocaust and the Syrian genocide. The Holocaust and American slavery. The Holocaust and the Nakba. It isn’t hard to spot both the allure and the danger in each of these provocative couplings. Such conceptual linkages command our attention, rouse us from our apathy, and compel us to clarify our ethical commitments. Still, comparisons also flatten history. They force us into undignified arguments over scales and degrees of suffering. They lead us down facile paths of analogy that often culminate in the dead end of relativism. Worse still, they supply cheap ammunition for contemporary political skirmishes."
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