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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always find it interesting that folks can have a reasonable discussion about the Holocaust, yet get super defensive and combative when slavery is the topic. [/quote]

Is it because many Jews have been able to do well for themselves despite their history? While AAs have continued to struggle. So history seems to have more affect on the present day SES of descendants of former slaves than Holocaust survivors. Or maybe because the Holocaust happened in a foreign country while slavery happened here.[/quote]
The jews were not deprived of education and family connections for generations.  Can't compare AAs to Jews.
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You're right. People have only been trying to kill the Jewish people for the last several milennia. No big deal, right? They weren't put in the original ghettos, they weren't rounded up and killed, they weren't tortured, they weren't run out of their villages... just the Holocaust and that's it.[/quote]

No one, not even the Jews has a monopoly on suffering. AAs were deprived of education and the fruits of labor was stolen from them for hundreds of years. No one can easily estimate the damage done by actually making it illegal for a group to learn to read and write. Which group is willing to have 1/3 of their people slaughtered? None. Who is willing to go into servitude and have their families ripped apart for the next 400 years with no access to learning? None. [/quote]

My point wasn't that anyone has a monopoly on suffering; it was merely that people make it sound like the Holocaust was the sole bad thing that happened to the Jewish people. Granted, I'm no scholar of either Jewish or African/African American history, but the Jewish people have had an unpleasant ride for millennia. I don't know enough about the history of the African continent to remember what all happened there.[/quote]

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