Joe
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To be honest, I personally do not like to use the Holocaust analogy, not only because it can be seen as insulting, but also as it is IMO wrong. The Nazis did not want to "use" Jews, they wanted to "exterminate" them, kill them and eradicate them from the face of the earth.
I'm afraid I disagree. The concentration camps were work camps as well as death camps. The Nazis wanted to work them to death.
Slave owners, on the other hand, did not harbor any ill will towards their slaves. Many are reported to have treated their slaves "compassionately", they simply wanted to use them and did not think that they did matter morally. For that reason, IMO the slavery of people of colour has very many similarities to the slavery of nonhuman animals.
I again have to disagree. Read a book on slavery like Bullwhip Days.
The treatment of slaves by their masters runs the gamut. Many masters did treat their slaves decently. But many others were hideously and irrationally cruel to them.
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