Interesting response. I don't mean to start an argument but I genuinely wonder what the reaction would be if it were a response to a Holocaust incident.

I've rarely seen a question implying such intriguing omitted context. You might not be getting downvotes if you had included it, since the question is kind of unclear without it anyway.

What context is that? You have a post describing a tragedy and a reply saying that humans have done it before. I was asking whether the same reply to a description of one of the tragedies during the Holocaust would have received the same non-chalant reaction.

Why drop into a thread in order to change the subject? Do your own research.

Since the dawn of humankind at least, seeing that other apes can be as cruel within their resources. The difference is that we are way smarter, we can be evil on top of being cruel.

To put it in perspective, more people have died in the past 12 hours of covid-19 in Italy alone, than were killed by Israeli snipers armed with the best technology possible over 2 years. In the next week, more Italians will die from the virus than could have been killed by Israeli snipers even if all injuries made last year became instantly fatal.

In fact, more people were murdered in Chicago by random gangsters, than were killed by Israeli snipers in the past 2 years.

I think we can take this post of yours as the reference for a definition of Whataboutism.