" @SeriouslyNow: you didnt eat anything! noone alive in your family has eaten it as you say. noone in the past 3 generations have done anything to hold the black community back and yet were getting screwed for something that happened to your great grandfather. pretty damn lame. p.s. my family are jewish. i was born in germany. my great grandmother died in the camps during world war 2. us jews have had a tougher time recently than the other minorities around. but because my skins this color im classified as just another white guy whos family probably owned slaves or something. affirmative action is ridiculous and needs to go. "1. Another person who claims to know the experience, but doesn't. There are many white american racists who treat minorities with disdain and many who still mistreat minorities in the workforce, despite the laws which should prevent that from happening.
2. As a result of your grandmother's suffering and many like her and the tireless work of Golda Mier your people got control of Israel again. A country your people could call your own, a proper Jewish State. This was measure of racist imbalance that was rebalanced. It's not perfect by any means and its rise displaced the Palestinians which has had many awful knock on effects for decades but it does go some way to adressing the awful treatment of your people under the Pogroms of Poland and the Nazi Party of Germany as well as the trials at Nuremberg goes some of that way too. Neither positive experience manages to completely erase the pain and suffering of your people whose families are irrevocably damaged (whole european generations lost to the Nazi death camps and slaughters in the shtetls) but both the Nazi War Crimes Trials and the rise of Israel as a Jewish State have certainly helped to heal some of those wounds of the past, yet still as recently as The 1972 Munich Olympic games were innocent Jewish people murdered for their faith by supporters of the PLO. This world is far from perfect and as you help one person you probably hurt another and so it will continue until racism is ended.
3. There is no worse or better racism. There is just racism. To claim that your people have suffered more is to not understand the Black or Native American experience where whole generations were either enslaved and/or genocided for the benefit of the white American people but more importantly it insults all people who suffer as a result of racism because it says that the people who suffer the most (by some measure of value judgement; deaths, loss of income or some other equally offensive statistic) should be treated best and those who have suffered less should get less effective treatment. There is no real and proper effective treatment of racism other than abolishing it altogether and that requires years of education so that future generations may learn from the mistakes and poor choices which have been made those in previous generations.
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