Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >OK, this is absurd. This is the excuse that European bigots make. > Are you aware that, by generalizing that all European are bigots, you are making a racist statement as absurd as the racist statements you attibute to Europeans?
Of course you don't notice. You are an economist, and all economists are evil <grin> Me: OK, now I'm really offended :-) John is an economist. _I_ am a political scientist - by training, if not currently. Economics is the _servant_ of political science - the master science, as Aristotle called it :-) Your English is also good enough to know that I didn't do that - I said "European bigots" <> "All European[s] are bigots." > France was almost as enthusiastic about killing its Jews as Germany was. > Every country in Europe was, save Britain, of course. > Not true. Unless this is an urban legend, AFAIK there was some king in an occupied country that wore a six-pointed star when the nazis made all jews wear it in public. Also, even if there were individuals in each country that liked the killing, there were also individuals who opposed the killing, even in Germany or Poland or France. Alberto Monteiro Me: It's an urban legend. The six-pointed star thing never happened. If only it had. And yes, no one is denying that there were individuals who opposed the killing. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi party member in good standing, for goodness sake. The point is that the vast mass of the population of these countries not only did nothing - they participated with some eagerness. The Vichy France government, for example, _helped_ the Germans round up France's Jews and shipped them off to death camps. Not concentration camps, btw. Concentration camps were invented by the British during the Boer War. The German contribution to the roster of man's inhumanity to man is death camps, like Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. They really are what make the Shoah so unique. Even Stalin and Mao did not industrialize death to such an extent. Only Pol Pot probably came close. Gautam
