Quote Originally Posted by Red Peasant
I beg to differ Wig, along with at least 6 million others, who have no voice. They were just the most recent instalment in a long catalogue of anti-semitic actions. But, maybe it was all propaganda, eh? Adolf certainly thought that they were 'special'.
That's my last word in this thread, though doubtless this subject will rear its ugly head again. Some things just need to be stated.
I shall refrain from my first inclination, which is to tell you exactly what I think of being painted a holocaust denier. The Holocaust was terrible, and there are people that suffered because of Hitler's self hatred who are still alive today.

That does not make Jews special. For one thing the last two thousand years have not been a concerted effort at the destruction of the Jewish race. By contrast the English systematically persecuted the Irish for the better part of a thousand years.

Prejudice against Jews is easy to trace because Jews are easy to trace as a group. Christian Arian heresies were persecuted far more often than Jews were by the Church. The difference is that because the heresy was in and out of the public eye it is more difficult to trace and the various incidents look more isolated.

If I'm reading your post right you are yourself Jewish. In that case you have a personnal, and perhaps personnally painful, stake in the arguement.

Regardless, I stand by my position, Jews have not been persecuted more than any other group. Nor is anti-Semetism different from any other form of racism.