What I am getting at is that you can say that everyone on earth is part of an ethnic group in which individuals perpetrated atrocities. Do you hold them all responsible for what was done by other people who were alive centuries ago? If not, why do you hold people of a particular ethnic group accountable in this manner?
Of course they are an ethnic group. Don't be silly.
So one group gets blamed for things other people did long ago and at the same time you complain when other people get blamed for things that happened before they were born. You justify this by claiming the bad things that some people do are in some way intrinsic to that ethnic group. In this case you are citing slave ownership. Can you name one Jew who owns a slave?
Are all ethnic groups responsible for the actions of some of their predecessors?
only if they continue them
What I am getting at is that you can say that everyone on earth is part of an ethnic group in which individuals perpetrated atrocities. Do you hold them all responsible for what was done by other people who were alive centuries ago? If not, why do you hold people of a particular ethnic group accountable in this manner?
Of course they are an ethnic group. Don't be silly.
So one group gets blamed for things other people did long ago and at the same time you complain when other people get blamed for things that happened before they were born. You justify this by claiming the bad things that some people do are in some way intrinsic to that ethnic group. In this case you are citing slave ownership. Can you name one Jew who owns a slave?