To: jessduntno
Well, yeah, except that is the dumbest and least related possible analogy you could possibly come up with. I think the holocaust and Shermans wholesale slaughter of southerners is closer, but thats just my gut reaction to genocidal maniacs in general.
The South did have a great Jewish heritage. IIRC, the Confederate's Vice President and Secretary of War (he did double duty IIRC) was Jebediah Benjamin, a Jew. Also, there was General Order 11 where Grant too the property and expelled Jews from selected areas of the South. It was so bad that even Abraham Lincoln didn't like it and put a stop to it.
62 posted on
06/23/2012 11:08:22 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: Nowhere Man
Your history is faulty. Alexander Stephens was the vice president of the confederate states. Judah Benjamin is who you’re thinking of, and he was the secretary of state.
64 posted on
06/23/2012 11:39:10 PM PDT by
Melas
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To: Nowhere Man
Judah P. Benjamin, a great orator and statesman, both before and during the conflict, forced into exile afterwards, died in France and is buried in Pere Lachaise alongside his wife, a Louisiana native who had family ties there. Shameful, imho. Beautiful, historic cemetery filled with famous names in history, though.
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