Re: [Leica] Homicide and photography

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

It was Maciver2 to whom I was most recently responding, Steve.
B. D.

Steve LeHuray wrote:

> > Certainly, persecution of anyone, or any people, is utterly inexcusable and
> > equally appalling. But if you have to ask "why as a Jew," there is really
> > no point in answering. But the old saw of what happened in National
> > Socialist Germany can happen anywhere is perhaps - over the course of the
> > past 55 years - THE most tired rationalization behind which defenders of
> > Hitler's behavior hide.
> >
> > B. D.
> >
> > Maciver2@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> Buzz said:"As a jew..."
> >>
> >> Why "as a jew?" Would you find Stansilaw's comments less appalling and
> > more accurate if you were, for example, an Armenian, an American Indian, a
> > Palestinian, a gypsy, an Australian aborigine, a Chechen, etc. etc.? Would
> > you then think that all of humanity is diminished by persecution; that
> > there is no paramount seat of honor in the corner of the oppressed? would
> > you think, as I do, that there is no section of humanity incapable of
> > oppression, which, I believe, is the point that Stanislaw was making.
> >>
> >
>
> I did not get the impression Stanislaw was rationalizing or defending
> anybody. Instead he seemed to be roundly critical, in his dry matter of fact
> manner, of the dark side of human nature and in doing so I think he was
> pointing out any ethnic group can be the victim of persecution and
> atrocities.
>
> Steve
> Annapolis