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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: racism
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 00:45:12 EST
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> From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)

> Of course, there was no hsitory of enslaved Asians.  Or of enslaved Jews.
> Which obviously means that Anti-semitism was not a particularly nasty
> type of prejudice, since it merely (?) resulted in pogroms rather than
> slavery.

Perhaps there is no history of enslaved Jews in America, but (lest we forget)
Jews (well, actually Israelites) were the first slaves in recorded history,
enslaved by the Egyptian pharaohs.

Anti-semitism resulted in something far worse than the pogroms (although the
pogroms themselves were pretty bad), namely Hitler and the six million.

The Chinese who worked the gold mines and the railroads were not slaves, but
had terrible working conditions, lousy pay and many of them died in the mines
or on the road gangs.  Not slavery, but cruelty nevertheless.
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