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From: david@mirror.UUCP (David Chesler)
Newsgroups: news.misc,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: How Many (x) Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Keywords: sensitivity, sensationalism
Message-ID: <20603@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 88 07:44:18 GMT
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Reply-To: david@prism.TMC.COM (David Chesler)
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In article <568@redsox.UUCP> campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>
>The Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution.  They are in the unique
>position ... of having been persecuted:
>
>    -	Recently
>    -	Somewhat successfully (in central Europe, anyway)
>    -	On a massive scale over a short period of time (modern technology)
>    -	And -- sadly, I think this is very important -- by a regime that
>	provoked a world war and *lost*.

  I'm sure the readers of new.misc don't care, and of soc.culture.jewish
already know, but while the Holocaust may be the worst example of anti-Jewish
acts, it is far from the only episode.

  Every year at the Passover seder we read "In every generation there are 
those who would destroy us".  Such has been the case throughout history 
through the present day.

  I agree with Larry's major point.  To think that Jews are the only ones
who have ever been persecuted would be inaccurate.  But to think that all
persecution of Jews was in the Holocaust is equally wrong.  (I'll leave
it to others, or upon request, to write about medeival times, pogroms,
restrictions and quotas in this country, etc.)

              -- David Chesler (david@prism.tmc.com, mirror!david)