creators_name: Thomas, Laurence
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2005-12-05
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:14
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Morally Obnoxious Comparisons of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocuast
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-ethics
full_text_status: public
keywords: American Slavery, the Holocaust, the American Dream, Suffering
abstract: The essay discuss the issue of comparing the American Slavery and the Holocaust, and the extent to which the ideology of the American dream has fueled invidious comparisons between the two peoples. Just as murder and rape are wrongs to be understood in their own right, I argue that a like claim holds for American Slavery and the Holocuast.  The essay further points out that we should be weary of supposing that wrongdoing is the sort of the thing for which compensation is at all possible.   
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Grazenlose Vorurteile: Antisemitismus, Nationalismus, und Ethnik Konflikte
publisher: Yearbook of the Fritz Bauer Institut, 2002
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: Steven J. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context.  Oxford University Press, 1994

Tony Martin, The Jewish Onslaught.  The Majority Press, 1993

Newton, Adam Zachary, Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth Century America.  Cambridge University Press, 1999

Richard Rubenstein, The Cunning of History.  Harper and Row, 1975
citation:   Thomas, Laurence  (2002) The Morally Obnoxious Comparisons of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocuast.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4634/1/Suffering_AS%26H.pdf