I do not appreciate being equated to a holocaust denier because I routinely point out that Hitler targeted groups other than Jews. The brutality shown towards Jews during Hitler's rule was sickening but we do a dishonor to those who lost their lives in the holocaust and a disservice to humanity by insisting that there is something unique about Hitler's attempt to eradicate Europe's Jews. We should recognize that many peoples have suffered injustice and oppression throughout history. It is tempting to see something unique in one's own history of victimhood - and all minority groups are guilty of this to some degree - but we must recognize that the self-righteousness that can arise from such thinking is destructive. Hitler did pursue other ethnic and minority groups with the same vitriolic zeal he showed when attempting to exterminate the Jews. How do we begin to quantify the human suffering unleashed by the Nazis and assign disparate priorities to the evil inflicted on different groups? Do we go by numbers? Yes, the Nazis killed more Jews than gays but is that because they sought out Jews or because there were more Jews to kill? Do we then discuss the prevalence of anti-Jewish hatred throughout history? Yes, the Jews suffered as a people without a home and yes they have endured great injustice in the diaspora. But does this set the Jewish people so much apart from others who have faced discrimination? What of homosexuals, slaves and women? What of the fact that Oliver Cromwell wrote in his journals that, had be possessed the means, he would have wiped the Irish from the world? I am homosexual and no one talks about giving gays their own state because of what we endured under Hitler. My mother is Irish and a statue of Cromwell stands outside the the Britism parliament. My father is Armenian and to this day the Turkish government - with little criticism from the international community - denies that millions of Armenians died in an attempted genocide during World War I. I will not deny the persecution that Jews have endured but the lessons of the holocaust should go beyond a warning of the dangers of antisemitism. Our historical memory of the holocaust should teach us that hatred and dehumanization of any segment of humanity is wicked and dangerous. During the formulation of the Final Solution, Hitler is rumored to have placated members of his inner circle, who feared that history would judge them harshly, by asking "Who remembers the Armenians?"