Can you clarify what you meant by saying that gay people should shut up about the Holocaust?

gaymilesedgeworth:

surprisedentistry:

fuck i’m tired of having this conversation 

it’s not that i think “gay people should shut up about the Holocaust,” it’s about recognizing what kind of relationship you have to the Holocaust

for Romani and Jewish people, the Holocaust constitutes a kind of generational trauma – the Holocaust today continues to be a presence in our families and communities. in my experience, if you’re Jewish, you either have family members who were killed in the Holocaust or you’re close to a lot of people who do. the Holocaust is also presently used, on a large scale, to terrorize us as part of our oppression.

it is a part of our consciousness and a part of our lives in a way that does not happen on the basis of being disabled or on the basis of being gay.

if you are gay or disabled but not Jewish or Romani, your relationship to the Holocaust is “i might have been affected by the Holocaust if i had been there.” if you are Jewish, your relationship to the Holocaust is “i am affected by the Holocaust.”

and that’s why y’all can produce Holocaust discourse just as bad as any other non-Romani gentiles, and why you need to be just as aware of that as they do.

(pls refrain from reblogging)

i lied this is fine to reblog