/lit/ - Literature

Anyone has read this book? I am fascinated on the majority of the perspectives here, both positvely and negative. I really recommend it, to see many positions.

>Any attempt by any group to keep a monopoly on language is doomed to failure... Because anybody can use any language they want. And the term Holocaust has such power—as the paradigm case of genocide—that any group wanting to make a superlative case for its own experience would naturally want to borrow it.
Seriously, is the Holocaust a unique event on modern human history (West. Europeans using modern tech and bureaucracy to try to kill entire ethnic groups) or "just another genocide"?
I mean, I think its obvious that the reason why the Holocaust is so important for the western mindset is that it was commited for Western Europeans against other Europeans.
But I like to hear many perspectives, including how the Holocaust shapes our modern perspectives on things (ie. Politican Wingnuts comparing their rivals to Nazis all the time), so what you think?