Name Change is in Order

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What about Wiki bro?

You basically lost the argument a long time ago...and it may be an unusual museum, but many massacres are owed a holocaust tag.

The Black Holocaust
The Greek Holocaust
The Chinese Holocaust

What about the million Indians that were massacred over 100 years by the US government? That not important enough to be termed a holocaust either?


The more I think about it, the more pissed I get because people haven't educated themselves well enough to recognize any of these holocausts. The word isn't reduced to a single event, and by rights the term shouldn't be either. That's definitely offensive.

Didn't bother responding to your wikipedia post, because, well, it's wikipedia.

Without a qualifier, the term holocaust almost always refers to the Judeocide. I'm fairly certain that's been well established by now. You have to explicitly qualify another genocide whenever you aren't talking about the Judeocide because the working definition of holocaust has been so well established by those who use the term the most.

[purest]

do you think this kid rages everytime the phrase "nuclear holocaust" is used in talks about nuclear weapons proliferation?

i bet he writes a 15 page letter to the editor about how if you google the word "holocaust" it gives you shit on the jewish holocaust (shocker!) so that must be the only possible use of the word

[pickled_heretic]

Anyway, all of those events are atrocities, and should be treated with similar deference to what happened during WW2.

[purest]

i bet he lays awake at night in feverish sweats anytime a climatologist uses the phrase "environmental holocaust" too

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by purest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

do you think this kid rages everytime the phrase "nuclear holocaust" is used in talks about nuclear weapons proliferation?

i bet he writes a 15 page letter to the editor about how if you google the word "holocaust" it gives you shit on the jewish holocaust (shocker!) so that must be the only possible use of the word

Again, Holocaust is qualified here by the affix "Nuclear." If the guild were named "Nuclear Holocaust" this thread would not exist.

[Humerox]

Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Without a qualifier, the term holocaust almost always refers to the Judeocide. I'm fairly certain that's been well established by now. You have to explicitly qualify another genocide whenever you aren't talking about the Judeocide because the working definition of holocaust has been so well established by those who use the term the most.

Even the Holocaust needs a qualifier.

See what I did?

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by purest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"environmental holocaust"

Qualified by "Environmental." Do you see a pattern emerging?

[mitic]

change the letter L to an M of that guild, doe it!

[purest]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Even the Holocaust needs a qualifier.

See what I did?

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Humerox [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Even the Holocaust needs a qualifier.

See what I did?

I don't see what you did, because it doesn't have a qualifier there. Articles are purely syntactical in purpose, "the" doesn't add anything to the definition that didn't exist without it.