| When Ilic and Young designed their Darfur poster their idea was to distinguish between holocaust, referring to a cataclysm of great propotion and genocide - the act of killing Jews and Gypsies in Nazi concentration camps. Seeing little difference, indeed major similarities between the twentieth century's most infamous mass murder and ongoing events in Darfur, which until recently went under publicized, the poster is a means to equate one inhumanity to another, not to sensationalize but to educate. The response to Young quoted in the previous post was from an individual connected to an Israeli refugee group. The problem it reveals is the apparent belief in "ownership" of the holocaust as a term, idea, and even reality that seems to preclude its reference to other holocausts. |