3rd generation holocaust survivor

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I was listening to the radio earlier today and a woman talking referred to herself as a 3rd generation holocaust survivor.

I've never heard this term before and it sounded bizarre. It was as if that fact was the basis of her identity in the same way some people are with their gender or sexuality.

Is this a thing now? Why the need to label yourself. Also what would constitute a 3rd generation holocaust survivor in the first place? Would you need to be a "full blood", or would a partial descendent be sufficient?
 
I assume she means her grandparents or at least one of them survived the holocaust.

I myself am a 2nd generation motorcycle crash survivor.
 
There is a huge movement in the Jewish community to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten, this is one way of doing this I suppose.

However I also see people using this as a way to deploy identity politics unfortunately. You get those black people alive today who want compensation for the slave trade. When in actual fact all our ancestors had bloody awful lives.
 
Reminds me of today's BOFH

"Well, I'm an Android user, but I identify as an iPhone user," the PFY says.

The Boss blinks.

The Director blinks.

Philip blinks.

No one wants to be the first to say that this isn't a thing – just in case it is a thing.

But it's not.

Still... no one wants to say it.

. . .
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I guess I'm a 3rd generation WW2 survivor then.... it is definitely reaching a bit...

MookJong said:
However I also see people using this as a way to deploy identity politics unfortunately. You get those black people alive today who want compensation for the slave trade. When in actual fact all our ancestors had bloody awful lives.
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The irony there being that as African Americans or indeed people from the Caribbean they're massively more likely to be descended from white slave owners than the average white person. IIRC an African American is on average nearly 20% white and some of those white ancestors of theirs are highly likely to include salve owners.
 
Victim mentality is rife these days.

Nothing bad is happening to me in my privileged life, so I'll link myself to the horrors of the past for victim points!
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Victim mentality is rife these days.

Nothing bad is happening to me in my privileged life, so I'll link myself to the horrors of the past for victim points!
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That was my first thought, especially as it rolled off her tongue like she had said it many times before.

tek81 said:
8th generation bubonic plague survivor here, y'all!
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That's great and all but I'm a 6th generation potato famine survivor.
 
I mean on grounds of technicality she is. She came from holocaust survivors without them she wouldn't be around.. Gives her rights to push that title around eh :D
 
Get ready for next victim olympics fad....

I'm a 3rd generation holocaust survivor lol.... ok no.

I guess since i'm Irish and the English oppressed my ancestors I can say i'm an X generation survivor of English oppression... no.

No just no. Any excuse to play victim and give yourself a little ego boost these days.
 
How far can we go back and to what? I'm a "3rd generation 1918 flu pandemic survivor" and that killed about 10 times as many people as the holocaust. "5th or 6th generation cholera survivor", maybe? Cholera killed a lot of people in 19th century England. Then there's the really big one - The Death in the late 1340s. Half the population of England dead within less than 2 years. I must have had some ancestors who survived that.

G-MAN2004 said:
Victim mentality is rife these days.

Nothing bad is happening to me in my privileged life, so I'll link myself to the horrors of the past for victim points!
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Yes, that. Grotesque.
 
I’m a third generation Titanic survivor, I’m going to email Cunard (who took over the Titanic's owners) - compensation here I come! :rolleyes:
 
dowie said:
The irony there being that as African Americans or indeed people from the Caribbean they're massively more likely to be descended from white slave owners than the average white person. IIRC an African American is on average nearly 20% white and some of those white ancestors of theirs are highly likely to include salve owners.
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I don't think their great, great, great grandmother being raped by her slave owner is an irony when discussing slave reparations, to be honest.
 
This is why we can't have nice things.
Victim culture/sins of their fathers, for eternity.
 
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