If you don't want to be perceived as anti-semitic take some time to learn the difference between the words Jew and Jewish as in your gross use of "Jew 'community'"
When you use a phrase like "Jew 'community' and then discuss 'rich jews' as though the victims of the Nazis were solely Jews or were 'rich' it is difficult to take you as anything other than anti-semitic, which in fact, is what I consider you.
If you wish to upgrade to 'just an ignorant jerk with anti-semitic overtones' please do.
I am honestly curious, is English your first language, and may I ask where you were born and educated?
If you and I were in a room, and it was apparent you were an American as am I, and educated in the US, and you used phrases like the 'the Jew community', yes, that phrasing is an indicator of anti-semitism as much as either of us tossing around the n word might be an indicator of bigotry against blacks.
And I would say that is probably true for most countries where English is spoken as a first language.
When you write "Yeah, but his victims were not rich jews" you pretty much state his victims were rich Jews and if not for that, we might not hear about the Holocaust.
It is clear the vast majority of the victims of the gas chambers were very far from "rich".
Israel of course has very little to do with why we remember the Holocaust. But if you don't understand why we study WWII and the Holocaust apart from "rich Jews" again I have to wonder, honestly, where were you born and educated?
No, english is not my first language (not even second). Here in Brazil we don't have a strong influence from the jewish culture.
When I say "rich jews" I could be saying "rich whites" or black "community". I really don't see how that could be impolite. Maybe not the best choice of words. But I do apologize if I offended someone.
I know pretty well that jews were not the only victims and surely not all of them were rich. But that was not my point.
I understand the importance of WWII and the holocaust. But the holocaust was not the only genocide of WWII (Hiroshima?), and surely not the only in our recent history.
So why do we focus so much on it?
I honestly think that the influence of the jewish culture is the primary reason. I don't think that's a jewish conspiracy. Just a consequence of history.
But I don't see anything particular about the holocaust that makes it more important than everything else.
For everything Hiroshima was, and it may have been a war crime, but it clearly was not a genocide.
"Rich Jews are in control of media" is a bigoted stereotype that saying "we wouldn't have heard about this except for rich Jews" runs afoul of.
Here are some pages that will let you know of the various anti-semitic tropes you referenced in your post as well as some reasons the Holocaust is unique amongst all the disgusting genocides:
Again, you are putting words in my mouth. I've never said Rich Jews controlled media.
I said that rich jews have strong influence in our world. If you don't think that's true maybe we live in different planets.
Every genocide is unique. If you think the systematic mechanical killing of the holocaust is unique you haven't read the post you're commenting on. And surely you don't know much about history.
Again, it's important to lear about the holocaust? Absolutely! Was it one of the greatest acts of cruelty we know of? No doubt about it.
But I just think that there is so much more that we don't learn about (at least they don't teach at the school or make movies about it), that makes the holocaust seem like the pinnacle of human genocide. And that is not true.
We learn more about the holocaust than about slavery. And it was abolished only 125 years ago (in brazil). That's just nonsense for me.
The mechanical efficiency of the the mass killings, for one, is fairly unique. Also, the stories of the Holocaust are more widely heard because many of the people that were alive when it happened are still alive today. Genocide is genocide, but if the victims are alive to tell their stories it gives a particular event more focus. And finally, the fact that we were inundated with propaganda prior to entering in conflict against the Germans solidified the war in out collective conscience as "the US coming in to save the persecuted Jews."
I mean, one could make the same arguments about other genocidal leaders. Why isn't Mao in out textbooks? What about Pol Pot? Well, we didn't have the same level of propaganda regarding those leaders, and there aren't as many survivors that tell their stories in the U.S.
But let me give you an example. Here in Brazil we had our own kind of holocaust. Very mechanical, and very cruel. But it was only last year that I have found out about it. From a documentary made about it's victims (one that is still alive today).
In contrast, I spent a lot of time in school learning about the holocaust. I watched a dozen movies about it. And I have lost count of the books I've read about it.
It was a cruelty beyond belief. But there are more recent genocides that don't get even a fraction of the attention. And why don't we learn about them?
Why the holocaust is treated as the worst human genocide in history when it clearly is not?
Even in our own (Brazilian) history there are genocides made by the empire that are very close to the mechanical cruelty of the holocaust. And we don't even learn about them on school. Why?
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Note: I'm not arguing about the importance of learning about holocaust. I'm just saying that we should make room to learn about other mistakes that we made in our history. That's the only way we'll keep from making them again.
When you use a phrase like "Jew 'community' and then discuss 'rich jews' as though the victims of the Nazis were solely Jews or were 'rich' it is difficult to take you as anything other than anti-semitic, which in fact, is what I consider you.
If you wish to upgrade to 'just an ignorant jerk with anti-semitic overtones' please do.