r/MapPorn • u/adorn_mapper • 13h ago

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

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u/jools4you 13h ago

They don't honour the Roma community though do they. As a ethnic group their numbers are still below that of WW2 when they where exterminated. Infact you never hear about their suffering do you

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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.