Halocaust v. Slavery?

Question

Okay, during the Halocaust, roughly six million Jews were murdered. During the slave trade, over one hundred million Hebrews were murdered on the journey alone.

People always tell them to just put slavery behind them. Yet if that same person would not tell a Jew to put the Halocaust behind them, can we say that person is racially biased/motivated?

To simplify the question, is it hypocritical to tell one group of people to forget their plight and sympathize with another group over theirs? Why?

Answer 1

I agree with you that people shouldn't say that blacks should forget about slavery. It was a horrible crime and still has its effects on the present. Blacks are still disadvantaged in the US. And I believe that generally the big crimes should not be forgotten and should be taken seriously.
Unfortunately there are also many people who say that Jews shouldn't care about the Holocaust anymore. I have heard so many times that people say something like "This happened so long time ago, it has to be enough now, we don't want to hear it anymore." Unfortunately I have to say that in my country Germany there are people who think this way (not most of them, but too many). I can imagine that many white Americans similarly speak about slavery. Many people don't want to be reminded of the crimes of their people. And these same Germans who say they don't want to hear about the Holocaust anymore sometimes say: "And these Americans are also free to forget about slavery, we want the same right for us!"

So that's how it is, it's sad.... no one should be asked to put such horrible crimes behind them. I would not say that to anyone.

Answer 2

As I see it, they are two seperate issues.

The Halocaust was totally driven by extermination. Malice with extreme prejudice period. It happened. Let it go, but don't forget that we can all be victims when our government says it's alright to do so.

Slavery, while quite brutal in many instances, was acceptable. I personally didn't do it. My family, being tennant farmers way back when, up to 2 generations ago, didn't have slaves, they were slaves themselves. Once again, the government said this was acceptable behavior, so it was ok, or socially acceptable. I don't owe anyone anything. I can't/won't apologize for something I had nothing to do with.

You aren't a slave any more than I am, yet we are all slaves in a sense.I think that sometimes people get hung up on racial equality to the point that THEY become racists themselves.

In essence, I think you should both get over it. It happened right, wrong , or otherwise. It didn't happen to YOU or ME. Our ancestors did this.. Get over it, but never forget it. The racial hole card has been way overplayed. I can never feel or understand what either group suffered, but I pray that people in general can have empathy for both groups. By remembering, It can never happen again.

Answer 3

"America's evolvement in slavery was problably the worst from of cruelty in the history of the world."

The facts say differently. American slavery was hypocritical in light of the ideas on which the United States was founded, but our part in the slave trade was not the worst. The worst was in South America and the Carribean.

You could argue that the part New England played in the North Atlantic Slave Trade was worse than the slave system itself in North America. Throughout the course of the slave trade, or at least that time North America was involved in it, the New Englanders sold many, many more slaves to the sugar plantations in the West Indies and Brazil than they brought to these shores.

About 4% of slaves brought to the New World came to the American Colonies, and later to the United States after it was founded. When the slave trade ended, 38% of New World Africans lived in North America.

In spite of what some would like to believe about it, American slavery was far less evil than it was elsewhere in the New World. The proof is in the fact that Africans, even in slavery, prospered in North America. Their expected life span in the colonies was far longer than the sugar plantations of South America and the Indies, where the average life span was 2 years.

Just look at the numbers of Blacks in the US compared to Haiti and Brazil. Both of those countries had more Africans taken to them during the slave trade than the US.

Our involvement in slavery was bad, because any involvement in it was bad, but we are more enlightened today than those people were back then. Their values were representative of the times they lived in. And don't forget, slavery was an integral part of African society, and had been as far back as we'll ever be able to research. This was not something the White man introduced to Africa. African slaves were purchased from other Africans.

It's a touchy subject, but it needs honest, non-biased study. It was plenty bad enough without having to lie about it to make it seem worse.

Answer 4

The older I get, the more depressed I become about our capacity to be inhumane to each other. The Nazis in Europe only perfected what the Boers did in Africa. The Kymer Rouge killed people at the rate of a million a year in Cambodia. God only knows how many died in China's Cultural Revolution. Millions of African slaves died horribly over the course of 400 years. And what about those smallpox-infected blankets we traded with the "American Indians?" We slaughtered a whole continent full of people. Latest estimates put that at 40-100 million souls. The problem, unfortunately, is larger than one group or another. We should ALL say, "Never Again."

Answer 5

Both are terrible in their own right and shouldn't be weighed against each other. If people say that slavery is just a matter of history and is of no relevance for contemporary society, they're obviously terribly wrong. But that's got nothing to do with Holocaust or the Jews.

Answer 6

Willie Lynch said:
Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a STRONG DRIVE to CORRECT and RECORRECT itself over a period of time if it can touch some SUBSTANTIAL original historical base and they advise us that the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to SHAVE OFF the brutes mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions.....


It just when "blacks" talk about it some are just uncomfortable hearing about it. So they say "get over it" "forget about" "excuse for your failure". Just because they don't want to hear about that topic. The holoacaust Happen in another country.

People often believe that holocaust was the worst thing to ever happen to a people. They also believe Blacks where just slaves which is far from truth. America's evolvement in slavery was problably the worst from of cruelty in the history of the world. Which is why many don't like you are anyone to talk about. If we really talked about how bad slavery was many peopel will tune you out.

It is estimated that no less that 60 million "blacks" died just during the middle passage. Compared to 6 million Jews, Jews pray to live whereas "blacks" pray to died.

I know the true reason is because the truth is in the past. If blacks know the past they would understand.

"these bones shall live again"

Answer 7

there grew to become right into a conflict against the Jewish people in WWll Europe, in my father's residing house city in Northern Greece the Germans military got here an took the Jewish people. the folk of the Holy faith who've given this international direction. a risk as many as a million Million Jewish people the place killed in the process the years until eventually now the Twenty Century. For doubters, Gen Eisenhower while right into a camp and observed what befell and ordered his troops to take photos with a view to no longer permit denial

Answer 8

I think that the majority of thinking people view slavery to have been as bad as the holocaust. I think that the holocaust has a little better PR though.

Answer 9

I think its because the Holocaust is a more recent event. WWII took place just 60 years ago its still fresh in peoples minds. Slavery ended about 140 years ago and no one alive now experienced it.

Answer 10

Aside from the fact the holocaust was assembly line murder, every race on the face of the planet has been enslaved at some time in their history. That's why they say, "Get over it." We've all been there.