To 1000stars:
“Let’s see, slavery: people removed from their birthplaces, stuffed into a cargo hold, shackled and treated like animals. The holocaust: people removed from their homelands, stuffed into cargo trains and treated like animals.”
You left out one crucial part: when the Jews left the cargo trains they were marched directly into gas chambers, killed and cremated. The slaves went from the ships to work on plantations. “Neither sounds too peachy,” as you’ve pointed out, but I would prefer the latter.
And say, for arguments sake, that the slaves and the Jews did suffer equally. How does that help any argument that suffering and oppression are the sole cause of permanent arrested development among certain groups of people?
As long as the left continues to dwell on the battle of grievances which dominate identity politics, they will continue to relegate those they pretend to care about into permanent second-class citizenship. Then again, if all those ‘oppressed minorities’ were to wake up and transcend their mostly self-inflicted status, most of the left would be unemployed.
