What is worse?

Question

The Holocaust or slavery in the United States of America?

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i am just asking this just to prove some one wrong at my school

Answer 1

They were both terrible things, both immediately and in terms of the legacy and scars that they left on a group of people. However, if I had to choose, I would say the Holocaust. Six milllion Jews and about 5 million other people (Romani people — Gypsies, homosexuals, members of the resistance and their families, and other targeted individuals and groups — were rounded up, transported to the death camps and killed, or killed on the spot. The Holocaust was a mass murder machine to which a society was dedicated by its leaders. Subordinate to the killing was a wider sstem of slave labor in which many of the German industires (and even Americans who were shareholders or directors of German-owned companies) were complicit.

American slavery was terrible, many people were killed in order to maintain it, but it was a sysem that aimed to exploit the labor of slaves taken from Africa or their descendants. People were kept alive, even if barely, to extort labor from them. This was evil and as Lincoln predicted, it was an evil that would take generations to eradicate from having an affect on America, even after the slaves were freed. But, eventually, slaves were freed, people survived to be freed, and their descendants, still struggling for dignity in many instances, are contributing activelly to American life today as free people.

My general belief, going beyond the question, is that we should all remember these wrongs and these tragedies, and use this memory to guide us in making our lives better and building a better society where racism has no place whatsoever.

Answer 2

they're not really comparable. You can't take huge historical events and treat them like pop songs or television shows.

The Holocaust was something done to a people that was not common practice at the time whereas slavery was. This does not justify the slavery of the African people, it does not make their past or current situation any better. However, the building of ghettos, work camps and gas chambers to systematically destroy an entire people, until there were no more Jews (and gypsies, blacks, gays, or anyone un"aryan") left on the entire planet, does make the Nazi cause much more intensely evil than the enslavement of the African people to be murdered, raped and/or sold on the free market anywhere on the planet, seeing as how this was de rigeur (normal for the day) at the time. No one wanted to wipe black people off the planet. they just didn't care about destroying every aspect of their culture and identity for their own gain, Africa and African people all over the planet are still paying for this loss of culture and security. Jews are also still living with the fear that The Holocaust is going to happen again, this time from Iran. In the next month there will be a huge neo-Nazi rally in Budapest and the Hungarian government is allowing it to happen. And Hungary is a part of the European Union. Why is the EU allowing this?
For some reason though bigotry and hatred still exist in all forms, it seems that people in the Western world now know it is wrong to imprison people for use as slaves, but many of those same countries still believe it is acceptable to talk about, and take steps towards killing Jews.
go figure.

Answer 3

You would have to do a little homework.

However, in my opinion, I would have to lean towards The Holocaust. The Jewish Race was nearly wiped out. I don't think that the African Race was wiped out during the Slavery period in the US.

Both sides were grossly mistreated. However, many slaves escaped and began a new life elsewhere where the Jews who were in Concentration Camps were made so weak that they would never have had the chance to escape. They were destroyed like animals for no reason whatsoever.

Hatred and Racism can make humans do such atrocities.


Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Both phenomena were the result of white people believing to be superior than others. I don't know which is worse. Some would say the holocaust, but many current issues in American society stem from the slavery problem. This includes racism, not just on the part of white people. One day, the marginal ethnic groups will have the joy of saying, "you had it coming."

Answer 5

Slavery is a blot on the US escutcheon but the holocaust killed 6 million human beings. No comparison...especially when considering that we did away with what put that blot there ourselves. The perpetrators of the Holocaust needed to be conquered in a bloody war. (If our own civil war had been won by the South we would be just as guilty as WWII Germany.)

Answer 6

millions didn't die because of slavery? do you people have any idea how *long* slavery went on in the US? and how many slaves died before they even got there? more than 10 million slaves made the "middle passage" across the atlantic; the death rate on the sardine-packed transport ships was as high as 20%. conditions were so bad once they got to the american colonies that, in the chesapeake region, it wasn't until the middle of the 1700s where slave communities were able to perpetuate themselves through reproduction.

then you have to consider the slaves that died up until the civil war, and then the freed blacks who died as a result of the civil war. lynching, for example, was happening quite regularly well into the 1950s. by sheer legnth of time alone, the people who died during the holocaust is barely a fraction of those who died because of slavery and its effects.

Answer 7

In years, The Holocaust was a quick and deadly burst of... death.

But Slavery was pure torture and completely violates all human rights.

Then again, would you rather die right off with millions of others or work for life against your will?

Edit- Oh wait, in America?

Holocaust prolly

Answer 8

Slavery is worse, cuzz it deprived the blacks of human dignity and made them suffer every minute and every generation until they were liberated. In terms of Holocaust, it was simply mass-murder. We all will die some day. Nobody can leave the planet alive. How many people die on the road in the US each year ? How many people die from starvation in Africa ? How about all the earthquakes, tornados, and sunamis occuring around the world every day ? Let me ask you such a question: Do you want to be enslaved, tortured, raped, and suffer in the rest of your life without human dignity, or you want to be killed quick ?

Answer 9

Holocaust and Slavery ( world over ) are both stigma on humanity.

Answer 10

The holocaust, although slavery wasn't pleasant, either. The holocaust was mass murder.