[johnnyworker]

Thank you, so much. Maybe you give me too much credit in that I do it for a form of moral self hygiene, too. I'm German, and trying to grapple with the Nazis and the Holocaust is something I'll do as long as I live. So this strikes home on several levels, the trauma that the Nazis seeded into Israel, the way the Holocaust is now used to dehumanize Palestinians or to smear critical people as anti-semites, and the all too familiar (having read dozens of books on the subject) tropes and fallacies used to defend these crimes, the dehumanizing language, the thinking of people in blobs. All of it.

Hannah Arendt is my favorite person in the world, period, so if I don't say anything about this, I cannot use the site for other discussions with remotely a good conscience. So it's selfish, that way. But I also hope and wish it helps a little, somehow.