What about slavery in the US? Are black Americans not still suffering from the effects of slavery generations past even though they’re not actively enslaved today?
You can’t ignore the bigger picture. The contention between Jewish and Arab people has never ended. It has only evolved. WWI ended only 100 years ago (Oppression by Ottomans). Holocaust survivors are still alive and many living in Israel. They also experienced the Arab Israeli war and other aggression from surrounding Arab countries.
When does an oppressed group stop being oppressed? They can both be oppressed and do bad things.
I’m not ignoring the bigger picture at all. I know that the conflicts and oppression of today often have historical context, but that context does not equal justification.
It boils down to this difference:
Your ancestors oppressed my ancestors.
You are oppressing me.
The historical events did lead to the current events, and, you can draw a direct causal line between the historical oppression and today’s, but those events were perpetrated by dead people against other dead people. The reason that, for example, black Americans have justified grievance, is because it is still ongoing and their conditions are still impacted. If the black American community today was fully repaired from those historical events, they would have no grievance, but we all know that didn’t happen, which is why they’re still justifiably up in arms about it.
What about slavery in the US? Are black Americans not still suffering from the effects of slavery generations past even though they’re not actively enslaved today?
You can’t ignore the bigger picture. The contention between Jewish and Arab people has never ended. It has only evolved. WWI ended only 100 years ago (Oppression by Ottomans). Holocaust survivors are still alive and many living in Israel. They also experienced the Arab Israeli war and other aggression from surrounding Arab countries.
When does an oppressed group stop being oppressed? They can both be oppressed and do bad things.
I’m not ignoring the bigger picture at all. I know that the conflicts and oppression of today often have historical context, but that context does not equal justification.
It boils down to this difference:
The historical events did lead to the current events, and, you can draw a direct causal line between the historical oppression and today’s, but those events were perpetrated by dead people against other dead people. The reason that, for example, black Americans have justified grievance, is because it is still ongoing and their conditions are still impacted. If the black American community today was fully repaired from those historical events, they would have no grievance, but we all know that didn’t happen, which is why they’re still justifiably up in arms about it.