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. >> > I did not get the impression Stanislaw was rationalizing or defending anybody. Instead he seemed to be roundly critical, in his dry matter of fact manner, of the dark side of human nature and in doing so I think he was pointing out any ethnic group can be the victim of persecution and atrocities. Steve Annapolis