Last week, Students for Life hosted the Genocide Awareness Project, featuring a graphic display that took up most of Tate Plaza.

They apparently hoped to use their shock factor images to bully and terrify students into reconsidering their own personal beliefs about abortion.

Before arriving in Tate Plaza, signs were posted stating “Warning: Genocide Pictures Ahead.”

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The display featured graphic images of fetuses torn to pieces and baby eyeballs, hands, feet and other separated body parts splayed out next to coins so the audience could see just how tiny these fetal pieces were. Signs stated “Call Planned Parenthood to Butcher Your Baby.”

But most significantly, the display showed graphic pictures of victims of the civil rights movement and the Holocaust, comparing the abortion rate to genocide.

While the project is offensive on many levels to many different types of people, its most offensive aspect is the casual comparison to the Holocaust.

It seems today many Americans are content comparing anything dislikable to the horrors of the Holocaust.

When the president passes a new law, he is compared to Hitler. When taxes are raised, the country is compared to Nazi Germany.

And now, when women exercise their right under Roe v. Wade to have an abortion, they are compared to the Nazi executioners in the Holocaust and accused of starting a genocide.

This shows blatant ignorance and a chilling disregard for the reality of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust is unique in its horror, and to compare anything to it is to diminish the actual atrocities the victims endured.

There is no greater insult to those victims, especially when it comes from a generation so far removed from Nazi Germany they can’t fathom the significance of the insult they so cheerfully throw around.

On Thursday, the University was lucky enough to be honored with hosting a Holocaust survivor to speak about her experiences.

However, Students for Life and the GAP Project sent a very clear statement of ignorance for her to see — they don’t care about the reality of the Holocaust, but would rather it stay far removed from them as a set of statistics in order to use it as propaganda.

Reality check: Not everything you disagree with can be compared to the Holocaust.

Genocide is not a one-size fits all term.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people, and the Holocaust was a transgression against humanity which has never been equaled.

Nothing in America can be compared to the Holocaust; not taxes, not the president’s bills — and not abortions.

No matter what the GAP project or Students for Life want you to think, having a necessary and legal medical procedure of your own free will is not, and will never be, genocide.

Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, it is time to take a stand against the dismissal of the Holocaust.

It’s time to remember its true atrocities.

It’s been only 65 years since Auschwitz was liberated. Have we already forgotten?