Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Whoopi Walks Back Holocaust Comments" video.

man, I really would have thought that john would be able to clearly express why this is so ignorant. race is a social construct. different cultures have different ideas of races and draw different lines between races. the nazis were famously, famously, oh my god how do you not know this, all about defining races and all about defining jews as a race, and dictating everybody's place in the world based first and foremost on their race. I can't even, I can not. america, why?! this is such iconic, widely known, constantly artistically depicted, easy to understand basic knowledge of modern history. I could have explained that when I was about 8. why don't you just say what I said here? it's not about jews who "feel that they are a race" as whoopi said in her ignorant walkback, the point is that the nazis did view and target them as a race. and FYI they based a hell of a lot of it on american race relations, particularly jim crow laws.
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•The ReUPs• you have failed to understand any part of what I wrote in my comment. american racism is not the only racism. race is in the eye of the beholder. you have absolutely no understanding of nazi ideology, and that is at the center of the issue of whether jews were targeted racially. you have literally no clue, why are you commenting? you think germans, jews, slavic people and many romani are all white people, but that has nothing to do with how race was defined over here back then.
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iit's romani or romani peoples. the sinti don't like being called roma, at least not here in europe.
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•The ReUPs• nobody asked whether jews are white in america, you imbecile. the country in question is nazi germany. you know nothing about it and you don't care (of course you don't, americans take pride in knowing nothing about not-america). so just shut up, don't bother other people with your ignorance!
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whoopi has 10/10 americabrain. race is what I say it is. merca!
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she's applying the american definitions of races to nazi germany, which makes absolutely no sense. th nazis were as racist against specific groups that americans consider "white people" (jews, slavs, romani [many of which were "white", but their skin shades made absolutely no difference]) as the most racist americans of all time were against black people. it was textbook racism by absolutely every definition, very much including if you do the silly "only systemic racism is racism" thing.
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Some One it does not matter whether jews see themselves as a race, what matters is that the nazis and the german state considered them to be and targeted them as a race. they even wrote that into law. "black" and "white" are not races in the context of german and international racial pseudoscience of the time, they are coloquial categories of today's american racial discourse. the nazis defined several different races of white people (some of which were viewed more negatively than any black person), and they and the rest of the world that was engaged in pseudoscientific racism at the time used the term "race" (rasse) for these categories. you and 80+% of other americans in this comment section are simply incapable of grasping that the definitions of races in today's america are not the only possible ones because y'all are intensely ignorant.
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the nazis did not target black/african people. the only thing of the sort that some of them did was to treat black enemy POWs worse. and of course black people in germany (not a lot) were discriminated against by being strictly forbidden to have sexual relationships with people of other races/"aryans" specifically.
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Mheros I'm not giving them credit, I am stating the facts. I am a german with jewish holocaust victims for ancestors and much more familiar with nazi history than even most germans. the nazis did not have particularly strong feelings about black people because their racism did not focus on skin tone anywhere near as much as america's. black people were just non-aryan foreigners, not much different from chinese people, turks, arabs, or hispanics. there had never been much contact between germans and black people in germany, there was no particular animosity because there were no black people here. for most people in germany around that time, the first black people they saw were black americans and british and french colonial soldiers in the occupation force after the war. well, the people of the rhineland already met some through the post-WW1 occupation, and they had developed significant animosity. the people who were racially targeted by the nazis were targeted because they were seen as a threat because they lived in germany and the areas that were to by aryanized, or because they were thought to be maliciously conspiring against the germans (jews specifically). black people were not seen as a threat, other than the threat of race-mixing from the few black people that lived in german-controlled territories, so they were not targeted as badly as jews, romani, slavs, LGBT people, leftists, or jehovah's witnesses.
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Mheros jesse owens quite famously said that hitler showed him much more respect than the US president, even though everybody was dunking on the nazis for having black men beat german athletes at the berlin olympics.
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