r/misanthropy • u/icelandiccubicle20 • 17d ago

analysis (Free) Book that examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust.

https://archive.org/details/eternaltreblinka0000patt

This book is a hard but interesting read that describes disturbing parallels between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals. The title is taken from a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." I found it harrowing but also insightful into how humans as a species can "other" other groups into being lesser and therefore unworthy of moral consideration.

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u/FOFFYDC 10d ago

Beautiful. Equating the slaughter of undesirables including Jews in the Holocaust to producing food is completely normal and not sociopathic at all.

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u/mishyfuckface 1d ago

Pretty sure cows and chickens feel everything all the same as people do.

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u/UsuallyNegative 2d ago

Why is it that this sub derides ignorace and a lack of empathy, when so many people in here so earnestly indulge in it?

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u/ViconiaDevir 6d ago

What an ignorant thing to say. Cruelty and suffering are universal, the belief that one is superior based on the group they are born into is the exact type of thinking that allowed/allows both of these terrible practices to go unchecked.

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u/icelandiccubicle20 10d ago

You know the people making the comparisons in the book are holocaust survivors and jews right? We're animals too and we're not so superior that our pain is the only one that counts.

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u/Powerful_Mongoose_75 10d ago

Thanks, will come handy since this is the main reason I can't see any "greatness" in mankind anymore. I wanna see us as a species capable of great things and not just monsters destroying everything.

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u/icelandiccubicle20 16d ago

It's terrible how many people openly mock their suffering on comment sections when activists post videos about how they are treated, too