Ms. Turia Not Alone in Misuse of "Holocaust"
comparisons.
"ALRANZ welcomes Tariana Turia's statement
that she rescinded earlier comments that compared Maori
experiences of colonisation to the Nazi Holocaust. I do not
think most New Zealanders of good will would deny that there
have been grave historical wrongs within the past of this
country."
"However, while Ms. Turia has apologised for her
misuse of the term "holocaust", other political figures
maintain its use. We refer to the anti -abortion movement,
some of whose members use inflammatory comparisons of the
Holocaust, a paradigm case of human evil and genocide of six
million Jews, one million Sinti and Romani (gypsies), half a
million people with psychological and intellectual
disabilities, half a million gay men, and
others."
"Indeed, the Nazis prohibited abortions for
"Aryan" women, while Jewish women and others were forcibly
sterilised. Nazi Germany did not endorse democratic freedoms
like women's reproductive choice."
"If Ms.Turia has the
courage to admit that her comparison was inappropriate,
what arrogance prevents New Zealand anti-abortionists from
similar apologies to the New Zealand Jewish communities, and
other victims of Nazi barbarity? Their own continued use of
this offensive comparison must be abandoned immediately."
Craig Young, ALRANZ Research Officer, said today.
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