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[Violet_Crumble]

Plus yr comment about the US being the only place that's treated Jews halfway decently is totally incorrect. Just for a start, what about Australia and New Zealand?

How many anti-semites did it take to scapegoat Jews in Nazi Germany? I don't really know, but what I do know is that anti-semitism was virulent and widespread there even before the Nazis came to power...

Just a little tangent on the tangent about the slave trade. I think you've taken the lower end of deaths at the time, and the more realistic figure is probably somewhere between yr and newyorican's figures. But what do numbers have to do with anything? Does that mean if an ethnic group only numbers less than a million in its entirety and gets wiped out or are victims of systematic and long-term persecution, it's not as important as when it happens to a larger group?

Violet...