Prejudice against whites is not the same as prejudice against blacks

[TeamsterDem]

58. I don't study the holocaust. And don't attempt to link your argument to the noble cause of ...

the anti-Nazi movement and, ultimately, war. That blacks might be treated disparately is wrong, but unless you're putting them in ovens and conducting horrific "scientific" experiments on them doesn't equate their struggle to that of WWII-era Jews; the two things aren't comparable. That you would try to make such a comparison suggests a rather hyperbolic approach to argument, and simultaneously suggests you're not altogether capable of making a cogent point.

What you appear to be arguing is quite apart from the way you phrased it initially; e.g. you seem to be arguing that institutional racism needs to be dealt with - a point with which I think almost everyone agrees. But you phrased it in a way seeming to suggest that one form of discrimination isn't as bad as another, something you're not getting much traction with because, frankly, no one could agree with that as an abstract statement. It's absurd, frankly, something I think you've now noticed but are attempting to shift your argument so that it doesn't look quite as silly as it did when stated.

Your argument has the logical equivalent of saying that it was more wrong for the Nazis to kill millions of Jews than it was for Ted Bundy to murder those girls. I don't distinguish between homicidal psychopaths: Both killers (the collective Nazis and Ted Bundy) were equally atrocious, although admittedly one - by sheer size and dint of government/military power - did have the effect of killing more people. Yet I'm betting if you spoke to a relative left behind after Ted Bundy murdered one of their beloved that they would probably not see him as a "better" evil than the Nazis.

The obvious reality is that any sort of discrimination is intolerable and wrong, no matter who is doing it.