Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Certainly, persecution of anyone, or any people, is utterly inexcusable and equally appalling. But if you have to ask "why as a Jew," there is really no point in answering. But the old saw of what happened in National Socialist Germany can happen anywhere is perhaps - over the course of the past 55 years - THE most tired rationalization behind which defenders of Hitler's behavior hide. B. D. Maciver2@aol.com wrote: > Buzz said:"As a jew..." > > Why "as a jew?" Would you find Stansilaw's comments less appalling and more accurate if you were, for example, an Armenian, an American Indian, a Palestinian, a gypsy, an Australian aborigine, a Chechen, etc. etc.? Would you then think that all of humanity is diminished by persecution; that there is no paramount seat of honor in the corner of the oppressed? would you think, as I do, that there is no section of humanity incapable of oppression, which, I believe, is the point that Stanislaw was making. >