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A few comments from the editor: first, sorry this is a little late, but you know--holidays and all. Furthermore, the number of quality contribution nominations seems to have grown a fair bit since moving to the new site. In fact, as I write this on January 5, there are already 37 distinct nominations in the hopper for January 2023. While we do occasionally get obviously insincere or "super upvote" nominations, the clear majority of these are all plausible AAQCs, and often quite a lot of text to sift through.
Second, this month we have special AAQC recognition for @drmanhattan16. This readthrough of Paul Gottfried’s Fascism: Career of a Concept began in the Old Country, and has continued to garner AAQC nominations here. It is a great example of the kind of effort and thoughtfulness we like to see. Also judging by reports and upvotes, a great many of us are junkies for good book reviews. The final analysis was actually posted in January, but it contains links to all the previous entries as well, so that's what I'll put here:
Now: on with the show!
Quality Contributions Outside the CW Thread
@Tollund_Man4:
Contributions for the week of December 5, 2022
@problem_redditor:
Sexulation
@problem_redditor:
Holocaustianity
Coloniazism
Contributions for the week of December 12, 2022
@Titus_1_16:
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"This is the sense in which, post-2010s, all marriages are gay marriages."
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"Oppression makes brutes of a people, and the oppressor ends up riding a tiger."
@YE_GUILTY:
Contributions for the week of December 19, 2022
@To_Mandalay:
Jump in the discussion.
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You are evading again. I am not interested in discussing gas chambers. I am interested in your claim that there were no genocidal plans. Which is clearly wrong. What was planned at Wannsee (working Jews to death and "treating" the survivors) is also not incompatible with systematic extermination, by what means whatsoever.
It clearly doesn't mean that, given that the first part of the document discusses how the expulsion from Europe plan is to be abandonded in favour of "evacuation" to the East. You yourself quoted to me correspondence showing that the Madagascar option was off the table by 1942.
"Evacuation" means that victims were to be systematically rounded up, moved to the East, worked to death and minority of survivors "treated". The only parts of the document describing moving anyone out of Europe are those in the first part describing the approach that is to be abandonded. Nowhere in the documents is there any mention of moving the survivors out of Europe.
You also realise that this claim of yours is wholly incompatible with your other claim, that the Endlösung means resettlement to the East. There is no evidence for this in the documents other than the word "evacuation" which refers to what happens to the Western occupied territories, not what will happen to the victims after evacuation. There is also no physical evidence of resettlement efforts in the East.
Now, you could claim that "the East" is not Europe (which would be ridiculous, given, e.g. camps in Poland), and that therefore the victims were in fact moved out of Europe. But why then the preoccupation with "treating" the survivors as not to serve as the gamete of a new Jewish revival if those people were already deported to places of no concern to the Nazis?
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