To be fair though, Gregor, no one on this thread has suggested that disparities in crime statistics are due to one race or ethnic group being 'inherently bad' or 'inherently criminal'. I certainly haven't and wouldn't suggest that. Far from it. But that is how you have interpreted some of the posts on this thread, regardless of the fact that no one posting on this thread has actually said that. My guess is that most people who have contributed to this thread would agree that there are lots of different factors at play in creating disparities in crime statistics - economic and historical. I certainly would. This is why I refused to answer the question as to whether 4 very different events in history were 'racist' - much to the chagrin of yourself and Zoom. Just as in those disparities in crime statistics, I think there were lots of different factors at play in those 4 events, economic and historical. Don't forget, the cops who beat up Rodney King were not convicted, and the men who murdered Emmett Till were not convicted. The judge in the trial was biased and disallowed evidence that might have convicted the killers. The educated class and the institutions you praised in one of your posts failed. A song like
Only A Pawn in their Game very well describes the wider economic and class factors that arguably play a part in such events. The same is very true in the other events you mentioned in your list. The creation of apartheid laws in South Africa were very much driven by wider economic and ownership of wealth considerations. And so too was the Holocaust. It is estimated that the Nazis seizing Jewish wealth amounted to as much as 20 billion US dollars in today's money. And that doesn't include the profits that several corporations made out of the Holocaust - it was, after all, the application of Fordist production methods applied to mass murder, rather than making cars. Were things like racial purity ideology and race hatred also a factor? Of course. But I just think putting all 4 of the events you listed down to 'racism' and nothing else, is overly simplistic and not helpful. Maybe you need to read a bit more Marx and the role of 'materialism' in world history? Marx wasn't one for the idea that history is driven by abstract concepts in people's heads.
German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazi party “actively worked to destroy Europe's Jews financially,” and nearly a third of the German war effort was paid for with money stolen from Jews, according a new study about the role of the German Finance Ministry during the ‘Third Reich’.
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