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Old 12-02-2009, 03:22 AM   #141
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Originally Posted by PKFFW View Post
I realise that.

My point was should a non-Jewish person have compared and ebook reader to being akin to the Holocaust I am sure there would be a huge outcry at the idiocy of the remark. Yet he makes the claim and even tries to give it credibility by stating his ancestry as being Jewish.

Cheers,
PKFFW
I agree with your point and it really bugs me.

Person A: Ancestor was subject to treatments during Holocaust. Person A was born in a time after with no first hand experience.

Person B: Born at same time as Person A yet has no ancestral connection with people subject to treatment during Holocaust.

It is quite acceptable for Person A to make statements in relation to said events (or a relational statement), yet Person B is criticised because he has no connection. Both Person A and B are making statements based upon 3rd hand information, yet it is ok for one, but not the other. Now before people jump up and down I am not Jewish but I have close family (biologically) who were subject to treatments during Nazi Germany's expansion in the 1940's. Does that make it ok for me to make statements about life in concentration camps? According to societal acceptance...YES, but ethically and morally I have no place to make statements with the exception of revealing factual and researched information.
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