Polish anti-semitism

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 12:20 PM 6/27/01 -0400, Gregory wrote:
><< What's really racist is that the skin color of the victims determines 
>what
>is a 'holocaust'.  Apparenlty, slaughtering Whites qualifies as such, but
>slaughtering Asians does not.  This is a specifically US-problem where
>world-wide search for victimhood seems to be favorite passtime >>
>
>Your references and implications simply elude me here. Right now, I see a 
>string of three non sequitors.
>
><< other countries simply mourn their own dead ...>>
>
>But what defines "their own"--or even "other countries"--is the crux of the 
>problem here, is it not?

That is very simple, indeed.  When, say, Israel or Russia commemorate the
death of Jews or Russians in WW2 - that seems quite natural, as most
societies remebered their own dead since the beginning of history.  If,
otoh, the US gov't commemorates the death of white non-US citizens in WW2,
but says next to nothing about the death of Asian non-US citizens during
the same war - that is racism, pure and simple. 

wojtek