Sure. Let’s compare the situation of having a beer v having a glass of milk whilst we’re at it then.
Not sure how a country actually offering up a vote and potential 25% negative response can even remotely be compared to the violent and horrific actions and direct state imposed laws of 1933-1945 that went on unabated, en masse in Germany. Drawing a loooong bow there I'm afraid.
Get it right ezy. Certain southern states invented them, not America. And those southern states had those laws dismantled. And Germany largely only copied the inter racial laws of those states which they expanded upon to include amongst many other things, horrific, en masse genocide. I cant recall Kentucky or Alabama invoking laws to send hundreds of thousands of black Americans off to concentration camps. Again, real loooong bow to be drawing. Real loooong.
You actually reckon the idea of Kentucky or Alabama killing black Americans in concentration camps is a crazy idea?
Read my first post and then Ian's.
Yeah but you're trying to compare 1700's Australia to 1933 Germany. That's not really an answer in my book. (Neither is a vague and incorrect reference to southern USA state laws either for that matter.)
Again, not much of a response. Is making stuff up that never happened the best you've got as well ? Geepers.
I understand it never happened, but you honestly reckon its a crazy idea? Lets look at what did happen. Systematic, sustained murder and mayhem without any consequences. And applauded by many. Legal discrimination and total exclusion of blacks from society, used as Goring's legal blueprint. The only reason a holocaust didn't happen was because there was no need for it to happen. Based on the actions of white people, I think its a perfectly reasonable and rational to suggest that they were capable of larger-scale slaughter if the need had arisen in their eyes. I actually think its about as short a bow as you can get. The difference is mostly economic. The Southern Blacks had no money and no power and provided dirt cheap, virtually free labour. The Jews had economic power, they ran businesses, were university professors. The holocaust was justified on the basis the Jews were scum and were taking over the country.
C'mon. That's all pie in the sky stuff tigersnake. Given that a Civil War erupted in the USA which was largely formulated off the desire by the Northern states and Lincoln to emancipate American negros in the 1800's, do you seriously think that Southern states would pursue, and the US government would have allowed, a "Negro holocaust" in the 1930's ?
I'm thinking. I'm more interested in the capacity and willingness of people to do it.
Your trying to compare a localised (southern USA state) situation that does not have anywhere near the content and scale of actions when compared to an entire nation (Germany) and then trying to bridge the massive gap by making up hypotheticals. And further, the REALITY is, that that smaller localised situation in those southern USA states dissipated snake .....whereas in Germany it went to unfathomable levels. So the southern USA reference doesn't really cut it for me.
