As most of your excerpts show, anti-immigrant violence in Europe is still restricted to far-right/neonazi fringe groups or Zionist/Judeofascist militants... I never contended that there was no racist violence in Europe
On the contrary, this is what you said:
"Wrong... DEAD wrong! Racial/ethnic dynamics play out differently in Europe than it does in the US. Did you notice, for instance, that, following last fall's riots when ghetto youths ran amuck rampaging, looting, arsoning and --in one case at least-- killing, there were no, absolutely NO white-on-nonwhite violence? I mean, just compare that to what happened in Australia in December 2005:"
You implied that Europeans handle these issues differently. In fact, the same people in Europe and the US are the perpetrators of racial violence.....right wing nazis or skinheads.
There are two other reasons that explain the difference: first, Europe doesn't have a "Second Amendment" that provides for militias and gun-toting vigilantism; second, Europe doesn't have a legacy of racial terrorism (KKK lynchings, Jim Crow). Of course, there was the disastrous rise of Nazism in the 1930s, when German fascists attempted to emulate US racism and eugenics in Europe --against Jews and other white minorities instead of Negroes and nonwhites-- but it lasted only 15 years (1930-1945) unlike the US's 200 years of official racism....
It may have lasted only 15 years in Europe but many millions more Jews died than blacks in that short period of time. And what about the Romanish? How many have died or been persecuted for their gypsy ways? And why are the Muslims in France rioting if things are so greatfor them there.
And how many Jews were persecuted before Hitler came to power? After all, the Zionists who met in Vienna in 1898 would not have considered emigrating to Palestine if things were peachy keen in Europe.
We are you several generations removed............apparently the acorn does not fall far from the tree. ;-) |
