Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was taught in history class in school that Nazis believed in a master aryan race, and that it was a sort of made up race judged by hair color and eye color. Thus, they certainly constituted "white supremacists."
And they killed 6m Jewish people in concentration camps, by far the majority of victims.
My guess is Whoopi was viewing the history through a lens of what SHE considers to be "white" people today. But she should have considered the history better and not made the comment. It was very inappropriate to me as it seemed to downplay the horror of the holocaust.
Nope.
Was there another group constituting 6m people who were murdered? Nope.
You may be thinking in the aggregate - the total of all other people.
That wasn’t what was written. Majority of victims means of the total number they were the majority of people murdered. They were not. If the PP had written “the majority one group of people” then that would have been accurate.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was taught in history class in school that Nazis believed in a master aryan race, and that it was a sort of made up race judged by hair color and eye color. Thus, they certainly constituted "white supremacists."
And they killed 6m Jewish people in concentration camps, by far the majority of victims.
My guess is Whoopi was viewing the history through a lens of what SHE considers to be "white" people today. But she should have considered the history better and not made the comment. It was very inappropriate to me as it seemed to downplay the horror of the holocaust.
Nope.
Was there another group constituting 6m people who were murdered? Nope.
You may be thinking in the aggregate - the total of all other people.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I was taught in history class in school that Nazis believed in a master aryan race, and that it was a sort of made up race judged by hair color and eye color. Thus, they certainly constituted "white supremacists."
And they killed 6m Jewish people in concentration camps, by far the majority of victims.
My guess is Whoopi was viewing the history through a lens of what SHE considers to be "white" people today. But she should have considered the history better and not made the comment. It was very inappropriate to me as it seemed to downplay the horror of the holocaust.
Nope.
Anonymous wrote:I was taught in history class in school that Nazis believed in a master aryan race, and that it was a sort of made up race judged by hair color and eye color. Thus, they certainly constituted "white supremacists."
And they killed 6m Jewish people in concentration camps, by far the majority of victims.
My guess is Whoopi was viewing the history through a lens of what SHE considers to be "white" people today. But she should have considered the history better and not made the comment. It was very inappropriate to me as it seemed to downplay the horror of the holocaust.
Anonymous wrote:It was an ignorant thing to say, but then Whoopi Goldberg is not much of a public intellectual.
What she expressed is a common misconception, though.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Huh? Judaism is not a race, it’s a religion. They (we) were targeted for being a minority religion.
Race is a social contract and so what race means in a particular time and country will be different. The Nazis thought they were the Aryan race, which was defined to exclude Jews.
Considering they have their own country, it’s a race and a religion.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Huh? Judaism is not a race, it’s a religion. They (we) were targeted for being a minority religion.
Race is a social contract and so what race means in a particular time and country will be different. The Nazis thought they were the Aryan race, which was defined to exclude Jews.
Considering they have their own country, it’s a race and a religion.
Anonymous wrote:Huh? Judaism is not a race, it’s a religion. They (we) were targeted for being a minority religion.
Race is a social contract and so what race means in a particular time and country will be different. The Nazis thought they were the Aryan race, which was defined to exclude Jews.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:and they went after many othersAnonymous wrote:Huh? Judaism is not a race, it’s a religion. They (we) were targeted for being a minority religion.
Race is a social contract and so what race means in a particular time and country will be different. The Nazis thought they were the Aryan race, which was defined to exclude Jews.
Yes but primarily they went after the Jews.