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How come jews have so many unique terms?

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slackerinabox

Lifer
Please don't view this as me being racist, it's a genuince question...

Mass slaughter of any race = genocide. The heartless mass slaughter of jews? the Holocaust.

Hate a race - racism. Hate jews? You're an antisemite. People have historically hated catholics, muslims, black people, chinese = but hatred toward none of these groups have their own terms.. Just curious as to how that happened.
 
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
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Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
 
Actually, the Holocaust was the mass slaughter of homosexuals, gypsies, Jews, cripples, and anybody who was considered imperfect, amongst others.

...and since race is subject to change by cultural forces, I'm not going to comment on the other.
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
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Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
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But the Holocaust, in reference to the 1940s, happened in Europe, what makes that any different?

 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
Click to expand...

Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
Click to expand...

But the Holocaust, in reference to the 1940s, happened in Europe, what makes that any different?
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True, I agree with you, but genocides, both small and large, happen to this very day. There are not many countries with organized forms of slavery.
 
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
Click to expand...

Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
Click to expand...

But the Holocaust, in reference to the 1940s, happened in Europe, what makes that any different?
Click to expand...

True, I agree with you, but genocides, both small and large, happen to this very day. There are not many countries with organized forms of slavery.
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Maybe not in the traditional sense of owner/master work, but there are lots of slaves out in the world today, whether it's to their goverments, etc. To address your point though, I agree there are genocides happening everywhere. America simply doesn't care. There is an entire conversation I could have on how we're 'helping restore democracy' in other nations right now because it suits us, yet in Africa millions have been slaughtered and it simply doesn't concern the US because there is no monetary gain. It's selective aide. Should the US even really be expected to help other countries? Personally I don't believe it's our problem, but where do you draw the line? Everyone hates the US until they need something. This is not to say we're the only ones. Tons of nations have turned their backs to such slaughter.
 
its cuz the germans were the peak of humanity of that time. they had reached the highest levels of culture/education/science/art of the day. and then they did this to their neighbors. not just neighboring states, but people who were part of them. then theres the systematic way they went about the task. and then theres the years of incitement that was ignored by the world.
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
Click to expand...

Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
Click to expand...

But the Holocaust, in reference to the 1940s, happened in Europe, what makes that any different?
Click to expand...

True, I agree with you, but genocides, both small and large, happen to this very day. There are not many countries with organized forms of slavery.
Click to expand...

Maybe not in the traditional sense of owner/master work, but there are lots of slaves out in the world today, whether it's to their goverments, etc. To address your point though, I agree there are genocides happening everywhere. America simply doesn't care. There is an entire conversation I could have on how we're 'helping restore democracy' in other nations right now because it suits us, yet in Africa millions have been slaughtered and it simply doesn't concern the US because there is no monetary gain. It's selective aide. Should the US even really be expected to help other countries? Personally I don't believe it's our problem, but where do you draw the line? Everyone hates the US until they need something. This is not to say we're the only ones. Tons of nations have turned their backs to such slaughter.
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Although I might agree with the fact that we choose who we help, what is it that you expect? If we tried to help every country in the world right now that needs it, every single person on this forum would be drafted and all of America's young males would be scattered across the world. We have tried in area's of Africa before and failed. Remember Somalia?? Or the other losing efforts that Clinton tried? They didn't work because Clinton was a pu$$y, and he went into somewhere and promptly left at the first sign of trouple. Lots of American's died in vain during those African campaign's, and if we are to go in again without repeating our mistakes, we will be going for the long term. Nothing good could come of that.

Besides, we aren't the World Police, the UN is supposed to do things too, but they don't. And when we do try things, they leave us to it by ourselves. We started the UN because of the places like Sudan that need our help, but we can't do it by ourselves. And I'll be damned if I would die for anyone's freedom. In Iraq, Sudan or anywhere else
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Why is slavery associated with black people even though it's happened to tons of other races throughout history?

There are no answers to these questions.
Click to expand...

Valid point, but white liberals have a certain "white man's guilt" because slavery was so recent that their great grand fathers owned slaves in American, know what I mean? We're detached from the slaves in egypt.
Click to expand...

But the Holocaust, in reference to the 1940s, happened in Europe, what makes that any different?
Click to expand...

True, I agree with you, but genocides, both small and large, happen to this very day. There are not many countries with organized forms of slavery.
Click to expand...

Maybe not in the traditional sense of owner/master work, but there are lots of slaves out in the world today, whether it's to their goverments, etc. To address your point though, I agree there are genocides happening everywhere. America simply doesn't care. There is an entire conversation I could have on how we're 'helping restore democracy' in other nations right now because it suits us, yet in Africa millions have been slaughtered and it simply doesn't concern the US because there is no monetary gain. It's selective aide. Should the US even really be expected to help other countries? Personally I don't believe it's our problem, but where do you draw the line? Everyone hates the US until they need something. This is not to say we're the only ones. Tons of nations have turned their backs to such slaughter.
Click to expand...

Hey Corporate,
Woaw, I agree with you on something. I do hear where you're coming from and understand your POV. Though I do specifically wonder where the term antisemitism came from. Not because I don't understand the prefix and suffix combination but because I don't understand why there isn't a term for hatred of any other race/religion/culture. Islam, to me, is also more than just a religion but also a culture - why is there not a word for hatred of muslims? A hell of a lot of people hate them right now. I'm not saying it's right to hate any group, nor am I downplaying the disgust that is antisemetism. It's just curious that other groups don't have such a term. I'm not being P.C., I'm just being curious. I'm fine with calling it all racism or green jelly, I'm just trying to understand.
 
this thread is complete schlock.
and the OP is schlemiel.

i belive you are looking for yiddish. google yiddish. a big collection of unique terms, also known as a "language". also see, hebrew.
 
Genocide against jews is not a holocaust unless you are talking about Germans in the nineteen thirties and forties.

So, you are left with a whopping one term - anti-semite. OMG, someone came up for a hyphenated word that specifies the type of racism. Call the Library of Congress!!
 
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