Vic Shayne
2 min readJul 11, 2024

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Of course it's shameful that Jews or anyone else would engage in the slave trade or slave ownership. But because of a special thing called antisemitism, somehow Jews are singled out without taking into consideration the whole of history. Black Africans as well. But does this make Black Americans or Africans evil as a whole? Of course not. So we go back to the same tired concept of Jew-hating. It makes people feel better to have an enemy to hate and scapegoat.

We can randomly point to any number of heinous crimes — mass shootings, kidnapping, the acts of Epstein's guests and fellow pedophiles (Trump and Clinton first come to mind), bombings, and so on, and find far more white Christian men than any other group. In fact, let's consider the Crusades as an outstanding example. But should all Christians be hated forever due to these acts, even if institutional and operated by the Church? Of course not. (However, it's quite popular now to use the absurd generality "old white men" these days as if gender or age have a correlation with the tendency to commit atrocities). We can go step by step, country by country, and find atrocities committed by every peoples, quite often on their own kind.

People need to place the blame on other people. This is how the petty sense of self, in a collective of other likeminded and hurting selfs, acts. It's the fault of psychological conditioning and it's what perpetuates hate, killing, enslavement, rape, and all the other horrific crimes against humanity.

I've heard the worst things said by Black people about Jews, but I have also heard the best things as well. And the other way around.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/confronting-africas-role-slave-trade

https://thinkafrica.net/african-nations-involved-in-the-slave-trade/

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Vic Shayne
Vic Shayne

Written by Vic Shayne

NY Times bestselling author writing about reality beyond thought, consciousness, and the self to uncover what is fundamental. https://shorturl.at/mrAS6

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