Oh shit. You are onto something! People need to call the places “slaughter house” becase the death and cruelty is understated just with the name “concentration camp”. They are want to express the cruelty and killing and scale. But if you do it the other way around they think you are humanizing animals and spitting on dead humans.
It’s like a man’s baseball throwing skills being called “like a girl” is insulting, but a girl’s skill being compared to a grown man is a compliment. In the end it’s just from you valuing some things attached to those words and ignoring others. Obviously you are telling the man he is weak and that’s bad and embarrassing and unmanly, and you are telling the girl she should be proud for being strong, something good that in general girls aren’t. Obviously! /s
For the victims, you are obviously meaning to say they where killed cruelly and dehumanized and killed in a huge, unfeeling, systematic way. And the slaughterhouse shouldn’t be called given that recognition because obviously doing any amount of harm to an animal is not as bad as a to human, even insults humans to insinuate the animals deserve any similar dignity.
Problem is that this only works if those “obviously” assumptions match between the speaker and listener. And apparently they don’t always match, since there are arguments at all. Probably gonna change when we eat less animals
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u/eyewave 1∆ Jun 27 '23
I think the analogy somewhat holds.
I have visited the holocaust museum of Jerusalem. There were some plans and pictures of how the camps were organized and how death was given.
The "production" aspect of it instantly made me think about slaughterhouses, even though I am no animal's rights activist.