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In my case, I just refuse to refer to the terrible treatment, interment, and extermination of Jews as a capital "H" holocaust. Why should the Jewish people have a cornered market on genocide when they weren't even subjected to the worst genocide in living memory? People are horrid to each other all over. I saw it referred to as the Judeocide and I think this a far better descriptor.
Comment by DFOHPNGTFBS at 24/04/2014 at 02:44 UTC
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TIL holocaust isn't only a proper noun.
But seeing as "holocaust" is only ever used to refer to Hitler's genocides, I think it's a good idea to use "Holocaust" for the Jewish one, and "genocide" for others.