----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Going Nazi
general discussion about the safety of Germans vs. Mexicans in context of Fascism vs Bourgeois Democracy....
>Unless that person was Jewish.......................Hello!
The jews were the main symbolic target. (Yes they were also real targets.) But I do feel like screaming when Nazi terror is described, as it ALWAYS is, exclusively with reference to the jews. The nazis were equally interested in eliminating the following: ANY political opposition (starting with the socialists/communists), gays, gypsies, the mentally retarted, the physically impaired, etc.
"Jew" is not shorthand for all these groups.
Joanna B.
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Agreed, but was it not the case that 'success' in getting away with attcking Jews was precisely what glavanized the enlargement of 'targets' for the Nazis bureaucratization of hate?
Ian