I mean you could argue it’s not even the worst thing to happen to the Jews in recorded history. Pretty sure being conquered and enslaved by the Egyptians was worse.

Not belittling the holocaust or anything. It’s pretty terrifying what human beings are capable of doing.

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Posted by Tiger1242

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Posted on 9/20/18 at 8:36 pm to elprez00

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I mean you could argue it’s not even the worst thing to happen to the Jews in recorded history. Pretty sure being conquered and enslaved by the Egyptians was worse.

Im going to disagree with that one.
Slavery in the ancient world really wasn’t that awful compared to what we today think of as slavery.
They had to do forced labor and I’m sure they faced some atrocities at the hands of their captors. They also likely were able to live in their own communities, have families, and maintain at least the core of their culture

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Posted by AbuTheMonkey

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Posted on 9/20/18 at 8:39 pm to elprez00

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I mean you could argue it’s not even the worst thing to happen to the Jews in recorded history. Pretty sure being conquered and enslaved by the Egyptians was worse.

Not belittling the holocaust or anything. It’s pretty terrifying what human beings are capable of doing

Given global and Jewish populations at the time, what the Romans did to the Jews was probably the worst of all, especially during and after the Third Jewish Revolt. I’ve seen estimates of nearly 4 million dead - which would dwarf the Holocaust in terms of the entirety of global Jewish population killed and percentage of global population killed in general. What the Romans did was basically taking an entire state like North Carolina (Cyraenica) and most of a state like Virginia (Palestinia) and essentially wipe them clean of human civilization.

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