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Originally Posted by nitehawk
what i could never understand is what could cause such a hatered for a religous group to cause a holacost angainst that group. What did the American indians do to cause such a holacost and what did the jewish people in Germany do to cause a holacost. What causes people to be anti-semetic. Why ??
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Nite … with respect to your comment about what did the Indians “do” to cause such a holocaust (ie by the Europeans against the Native Americans) … they didn’t do anything. They just ended up on the losing side of history. No one’s fault per se … just the way aggressive humans interact when one culture expands and the opponent retreats or is overwhelmed. My great grandmother was a Cherokee so I’m not being critical of Indians per se.
But, for purposes of historical consistency, do you ever wonder what the Gallic tribes of modern day France “did” to cause the Romans to invade and conquer them during Caesar’s time? For that matter, does it still upset you and strike you as unfair that the Vandals, Goths and various other “barbarian” tribes overran the Roman empire? Or what about when the Romans sacked Carthage to include salting the earth such that it literally vanished from the face of the earth? Just asking …