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If anything, I'd think the smaller the minority, the more attention that would need be brought to their plight (that is, if I thought these [insert race] History Months were necessary in the first place) since they'd be lacking as much of a voice. |
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To me, black history month is about politicians throwing the likes of Al Sharpton a bone. |
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While there may be movies about the holocaust, and maybe there is a Jewish month, but I've never heard of it and I doubt I'm the only one. The media definitely publicizes the whole black history month a lot more. The holocaust also ties in with Hitler, and the war, so there are definitely going to be a lot of movies about it. It's just better movie material. My main point is that the media doesn't spread the message of the Jews history near as much as African-Americans history. I don't think I've ever seen a TV commercial about jewish history month, I've seen plenty about black history month. And Public schools, at least in my experience, don't educate about Jewish history near as much as they educate about African-Americans. Good point about Native Americans. They were probably ****ed over more than any race, but not much is said about it. Maybe because there aren't many left, because our ancestors killed so many; and it just had to be done, so **** em, lets throw a holiday for the blacks and just try to forget about the Indians. |
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The Jewish issue is actually very different and shouldn't really be compared, they are truly an international race and have usually been at the business hub of any society that they have lived in and for that reason especially in Europe, they have been heavily discriminated against! In the USA they've never been treated as slaves and basically suffered the same as any other ethnic group that emigrated there, if you're going to suggest some kind of education for the hardships of American Jews, I suggest you also blow the horn for the Irish, Italian and Polish immigrants of the 20th century as well. The negro was used as a slave, the native indian robbed of his land, whereas the Jews ended controlling Hollywood. |
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Why are we responsible for this? I think I have the right to take the moral high ground on genocide in other countries because I have never been involved in the Trail of Tears or slavery. I find both genocide and slavery regardless of what country was involved equally despicable. |
That's true, unknown soldier. That's why I said in my first post, "maybe its because I live in America".
"we" weren't responsible or the trail of tears, and "we" weren't responsible for slavery or any of that. So why should we be taught to sympathize with blacks? It's just the polite thing to do I suppose. |
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Second of all, I am as disgusted with the horrors in America's past as I am about modern tragedies in other nations. They are abominations. I am not "forgetting that we committed genocide." Thirdly. It is not wrong to get on a moral high ground when it is about GENOCIDE. Hell, are we supposed to say, "Well, that's bad and all, but our ancestors screwed up back then so we can't really judge you for killing a huge portion of your own population." Does that sound correct in any way, shape, or form? No, because it is insane. Americans are just as capable of committing atrocities as other nations, but that does not mean we need to cut people slack when they are killing/enslaving/starving another people. I really hope that all makes sense. |
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