gaudior

I agree with you that the treatment of Blacks in the South absolutely rose to the level of torture, rape and murder, even systematic torture, rape and murder. The differences between that and what happened in Europe, as I see them, were a) there was no element of systematic elimination of a people in the South, quite the opposite, and b) there was quite a lot more freedom of movement for the people being persecuted. No one was preventing blacks in the South from moving to the north to escape segregation. During slavery, absolutely, but that's not within anyone's memory.

And as I said to April, I'm not in any way surprised that you hadn't heard anything about anti-semitism before you came to the east coast. They don't have much racial discrimination in New Hampshire, as compared to Virginia, but there aren't really many Black people in New Hampshire.

I'm not trying to weigh whose persecution was worse: that's a no win for everyone, and I don't think it serves any purpose. My point to Gaud was just that just because she herself has never experienced serious anti-semitism doesn't mean it's not there, and doesn't mean it's not worth talking about, or that because it "isn't so bad" as other people's persecution it doesn't matter.