Very interesting to read the comments on here. Seems whenever there is any talk of slavery or any atrocity committed by western powers past or present there is

Very interesting to read the comments on here. Seems whenever there is any talk of slavery or any atrocity committed by western powers past or present there is always a tone of "it wasn't that bad". Whether or not you agree with that statement, the fact is the atrocities committed by other powers are just unbeatably heinous, but our atrocities? Not so bad. Honestly not going to go in depth with that argument as I'm a long-time lurker here and I've seen just how defensive people are on this forum (not to even factor in the typical defensiveness that white people in america exude the second the topic of slavery is brought up). What i will ask, as a matter of fact what i specifically made this account to ask, is why I never hear any such musings of common sense and equality of suffering when the subject of Jewish reparations for the Holocaust is brought up?[0][1] My personal opinion is reparations won't change the fact that racism is still real in America and prevalent. Reparations won't undo the fact that we as a country shipped these people across an ocean just to subject them to unmitigated atrocities - yes plural, the fact that they were slaves wasn't even 1/10th the worst thing that happened to them as some of them were actually slaves back in their own lands, it's everything that came as a consequence of what it meant to be a black slave in the United States. As a consequence, whether or not reparations are being asked for, I don't care. What i do care about is this blatant double standard that we put on show whenever our heinous activities are brought to discussion, and just using the Jewish as an example, other atrocities are simply black and white to the point where we reached peak Nazi/Hitler porn and just kept soaring. Supposedly an atrocity that was caused mostly by intentional neglect and mistreatment of an entire class of people based on their ethnicity is only completely morally repugnant if we're not the ones committing them. Just my own 0.02. Gonna go back to ignoring op's comment