Why does Trump's statement on Holocaust RemDay neglect to cite the (6 million) Jews who were killed?

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[Mc Mike]

1. His extra large number of nazi fans might provide a reason.

[Generator]

2. Bannon hates the Jews

and the Muslims and the women and.....

[pangaia]

3. Just about as bad is that whomever wrote this, had the arrogance to say

he will do everything he can to see that the forces of evil will be defeated by the powers of good.

Talk about, ass-backward !!

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Bannon wrote it. He also wrote the document proclaiming

Tangorang's inauguration a "Day of Patriotic Devotion."

[Archae]

5. It wasn't just Jews.

Eastern European and Russian POW's, gays, the "feeble minded," Gypsies, intellectuals, etc.

Nazi Germany had a machinery of death, and they used it to eliminate anyone not "true Aryan blood."

[RedWedge]

6. The term "Holocaust" refers specifically to the genocidal actions against the Jews.

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[Archae]

7. I know.

I was just pointing out that this day shouldn't be exclusive to Jews.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Every death is a tragedy but changing the character of the Holocaust should be reserved for...

Every death is a tragedy but changing the character of the Holocaust should be reserved for Holocaust deniers.

[mythology]

15. That's a narrow view that ignores nearly 50% of systemic victims

To my mind, that view point is the one denying part of the Holocaust. Yes the Nazis were most successful in targeting Jewish people, But they also had an express goal of killing all the ethnic Poles as well for examples.

Your view is prioritizing one specific group rather than looking at the entire picture.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. To deny the unique character of the Holocaust is the basis for Holocaust revisionism

To deny the unique character of the Holocaust is the basis for Holocaust revisionism and part and parcel of anti-semitism. I am not remotely surprised Stephen Bannon's puppet Donald Trump is in the midst. The Holocaust was the apotheosis of nearly four hundred years of German anti-semitism that began with Martin Luther.

It reminds me of people who minimize American slavery because African Americans weren't the first people to be enslaved and, well, the Greeks owned slaves too.

[Mosby]

11. International Holocaust Remembrance Day

is to honor all the 11 million who were murdered by the Nazis.

https://www.facebook.com/WeAreTheJews/videos/10155820194817316/

[mythology]

14. Not everybody uses the narrower definition

For example the Wikipedia page refers to both definitions and cites non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the total deaths.

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9. that's accurate and important

...still we should recognize the specific, brutal campaign against the Jewish people waged by the Nazi regime termed as the 'Final Solution,' coupled with the Nuremberg Laws which legislated Jews outside of all vestiges of their humanity.

[uponit7771]

20. Their machinery of death was SPECIFICALLY targeted towards getting rid of Jews on industrial level

... that's history as a fact

[MineralMan]

8. Bannon and some others do not like Jewish people.

Its's a problem they're going to have to figure out, I think.

[AJT]

10. Trump didn't write it

or even read it.....

[anneboleyn]

13. It is a deliberate omission. Of course other groups were targeted by Nazi Germany. But this is

Holocaust RemDay, and that means that this official WHITE HOUSE statement should mention the Jews specifically (this doesn't mean that we deny or diminish the horrors that were inflicted on other groups such as the disabled, mentally ill, and terminally ill including children (ill children were murdered -- unknown to their German parents who were told that they died of natural disease-related causes -- in the T-4 program -- or the targeting and mass murder of gay men) . Trump relies very, very, very heavily on the alt-right, and yes many of them are anti-Semitic and many are holocaust deniers. The crap they say about Ivanka and her (Jewish) husband is insane -- but they still consider Trump their savior and Bannon of course loves them. And of course Trump didn't write this -- Bannon wrote it (or one of his minions).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Drumpf uses his Jewish daughter and son in law as beards.

[struggle4progress]

18. Reagan left a wreath for the Waffen SS graves in Bitburg

Maybe this is just another Republican effort to highlight 'alternative facts' about the Nazi genocide

[Mc Mike]

23. "Bonzo goes to Bitburg".

Deaver scored a duty-free Benz from that trip.

They originally said that the wreath was for both German and American dead soldiers, then it turned out there were no American troops buried there.

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19. Puzzling and troubling"

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[Behind the Aegis]

22. I agree.

It definitely sets a tone.

[hatrack]

21. 'Cuz they're JOOOOOOOZZZZ, and don't worship Jeebus

Oh, and the fact that his staff are ahistorical idiots might have something to do with it as well.