Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam seen at a demonstration last year Image: Andres Pantoja/PA Images Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam seen at a demonstration last year Image: Andres Pantoja/PA Images CLIMATE ACTION GROUP Extinction Rebellion has moved to distance itself from comments made by its co-founder after he sparked outrage by referring to the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history”.
In an interview with Die Zeit newspaper, Roger Hallam, 53, compared the murder of six million Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis to other historical massacres and claimed that memory of the Shoah was holding Germany back. “The extremity of a trauma … can create a paralysis in actually learning the lessons from it,” he told Die Zeit in an English-language interview.
“The fact of the matter is, millions of people have been killed in vicious circumstances on a regular basis throughout history.”A number of national Extinction Rebellion groups have since condemned his remarks. In a statement, Extinction Rebellion UK said it unreservedly denounced Hallams’ comments, saying they were made in a personal capacity.“Internal conversations have begun with the XR Conflict team about how to manage the conflict process that will address this issue. We stand by restorative outcomes as preferable, although in some cases exclusion is necessary.
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