Music Banter - View Single Post - The Judaism Thread
Thread: The Judaism Thread
View Single Post
Old 06-07-2016, 01:08 PM   #12 (permalink)
The Batlord
Zum Henker Defätist!!
 
The Batlord's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,216
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1blankmind View Post
Being a jew anywhere wasn't good. My family fled Russia because of religious persecution. To me, it always seemed like no religion has been persecuted more throughout history than the jews. Between the inquisition, the one in Russia (I don't think they had a technical name for it), and the Holocaust to name a few.
In Russia I think it was just a disorganized but relatively frequent series of pogroms. In order of pre-Holocaust suckiness-to-be-a-Jew, it seems to be...

1. Russia
2. Germany/Austria
3. France (or so I hear)

That list is open to change.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
The Batlord is offline   Reply With Quote