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To: E. Charters who wrote (5870)	9/6/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12754

>>Why the Jews?<< -- It's simple. In Christian cultures (I am neither a Jew nor a Christian, by the way,) there is a built in ideological/religious demonization of Jews as the betrayers of the central character in the Christian myth. Of course other groups have been scapegoated in other settings. Scapegoating is a universal reflex of human beings in conditions of crisis. I was not saying that nobody but the Jews has ever been scapegoated, obviously. But there are only two cases in world history of entire ethnic/religious groups singled out specifically for organized extermination: the Jews and the Armenians. This is the scholarly consensus. The distinction won by the Jews and the Armenians is that in their cases, the discrimination and oppression characteristic of other scapegoating patterns rose to the level of attempted total physical extermination organized at the state level. I recognize that there are other groups who are on the waiting list of history for academic qualification as victims of mass genocide. I am thinking of the Hutu/Tutsi inter-extermination events. And now Amnesty International reports that the Taliban of Afghanistan have recently murdered thousands of ethnic Hazars in the northern part of the country, men, woman, children, old people... The notion that the passions that lead to exercises in scapegoating could be somehow ameliorated by forming a governing class via a "blind lottery from a pool of those who were exam qualified" strikes me as naive, and also as a change of subject-- an attempt to mute or evade the dreadful meaning of the current adoption of fascistic antisemitic ideology by black nationalists.