Quote from Alex_in_Oz:
An erudite and interesting rant. I disagree with it though.
Firstly, there is nothing "unique" about the Jewish holocaust. There have been many attempts at planned ethnic cleansing, even recently we have had Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzogovina, Albanians in Kosovo, Darfur etc.
There have been many attempts also to exterminate a 'class'. Under Pol-Pot the 'educated and intellectual' class was effectively 'culled', same in the first few years of post- revolutionary Russia and many other instances.
Over the years the Jews have participated in this filthy business no more and no less as much as 'non-Jews' have and should stop making out they have always been the victims of Gentile oppression.
It is this Jewish sanctimoniousness which sickens me.
problem is that such discussion tends to dminish the pain of one
victim or the other, which i do not want to do. in terms of cruelty,
planning, ethnical reaosons there are many cases of the same
quality. in terms of size, organisational effort, cultural standing
of where it happened, length of process and escpecially the level
of organisation, i still think it is unique.
read jewish literature. it is not about being holy, being superior.
it is about poverty, pain, fear, survivorship and loss. you must bring
critic to the right adressee, otherwise it itself must be critisised.
THE jews are just, hurt, hurt, hurt. that is where they are coming
from. and they want to spread that message in order to make it
not happen again. thought about that as their main motivation
for bringing the shoa to public attention?
