Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was Maciver2 to whom I was most recently responding, Steve. B. D. Steve LeHuray wrote: > > 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