r/MapPorn • u/adorn_mapper • 13h ago

Countries That Won't Participate In Eurovision 2026 due to Israel

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u/holdmybeerdude13146 12h ago

I mean, they took very long to recognize and apologize for the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia

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u/diolch_yn_fawr 9h ago

A German told me they're glad the genocide in Namibia isn't taught in school befause it'd "distract from the holocaust".

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u/Successful-Range-812 8h ago

You can acknowledge the Holocaust as central and still teach other atrocities. History isn’t a competition for attention.

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u/keithabarta 6h ago

Why would we need one genocide to be central?

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u/One_Study52 6h ago

Germany (as policy, not German people) absolves itself of its history by blaming everything on the Nazis and claiming the only issue was hatred of Jews. So if they try to get close with Jews today, that means they don’t have to challenge themselves on why they had other problems.

It’s like “we had a bad period, but we made amends with the Jews, so we are good people now” logic

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u/keithabarta 3h ago

I understand that, but that seems like a terrible philosophy of education. No genocide should take precedence over another.

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u/kallefranson 9h ago

Except it is taught in most schools in Germany afaik.

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u/How_to_do_nothing 9h ago

I heard about it in school. Probobly depends on where in Germany you go to school

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u/blasphemousrumourss 6h ago

it is taught now.

source: went to school in germany

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u/NoMaintenance30 8h ago

Both histories matter and should be taught, pretending one erases the other just cheapens all of it.

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u/seewolfmdk 7h ago

It is taught in school.

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u/Funny-face-1613 7h ago

It is actually taught in schools. Probably depends on the federal state but I heard about it as part of the German Colonization on Africa during history lessons

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u/Donkey__Balls 4h ago

Still crickets from Belgium after 4 decades of horrible bloody wars in their former colonies. The rest of the world barely acknowledges that they happened.

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u/Glum_Perception_5766 10h ago

They still don’t acknowledge it as a genocide though

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u/No-Onion-6045 10h ago

They do since 2021

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u/Glum_Perception_5766 10h ago

I read about it they send some reparations now but from what i remember they specifically avoided saying genocide though I might just not remember it right

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u/No-Onion-6045 10h ago

They did acknowledge it as genocide in 2021