Hello everyone! In addition to reading Night, it is very important to also discuss historical background (I'm a history teacher. I can't help it! :) ) Before beginning our discussions about WWII and the Holocaust, we need to talk about the causes and effects of antisemitism. Please watch the attached 12-minute video, European Antisemitism From its Origins to the Holocaust, and answer the following questions.
https://www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/european-antisemitism-from-its-origins-to-the-holocaust
1. What is antisemitism?
2. What is the meaning of “scapegoat”? What do people gain from scapegoating?
3. What is the effect of hateful images and speech? Do images and words reflect existing attitudes
or create them?
4. Why would political or religious leaders espouse antisemitic ideas?
1. Antisemitism is prejudice against people of the Jewish religion.
ReplyDelete2. "Scapegoat" is someone, or a group, who others blame for wrongdoing or misfortune in one's community.
3. The use of hateful images makes attitudes change depending on who you agree with and usually an attitude of respect towards the mistreated and resentment of the oppressors, or respect of the oppressors and resentment of the ones being portrayed as bad.
4. A political leader may use antisemitism to untie a crowd with general appeal. They would use of a better future without the Jewish. Though this is wrong, most people want to blame anyone but themselves for events that led to a bad time in their country.
1. Antisemitism is the discrimination against Jews.
ReplyDelete2. A Scapegoat is a group of people who are blamed for a certain event or action. Scapegoating is an easy way to place the blame and point the finger at others.
3. Hateful images and speech can have a different effect on certain people. If a person believes the hateful message then they will follow along, but if a person disagrees with the message it could cause them to feel sympathy and side with the group of individuals who are being attacked. Images and words reflect excisting attitudes, I believe it just takes one person or a group of individuals to deliver the hateful message.
4. Political and religious leaders espouse antisemitic ideas in order to provide quick answers to people in the community. Many leaders feel as if they absolutely have to present answers to the community for all of the problems that the community is facing, therefore they adopt antisemitic ideas.
1. Antisemitism is discrimination of people who partake in the Jewish religion or Jewish values
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is a person or thing that takes the blame of someone or something else. People usually gain evasion of punishment or blame for an action or decision that person made.
3. Hateful images and speech creates an atmosphere where the targeted person feels very uncomfortable and violated, often times isolating them from society. Images and words do indeed create attitudes because one person can continue to say the same hateful things and then soon, every one else around them will begin to feel the same way.
4. Political or religious leaders espouse antisemitic values and ideas in order to blame one central race or religion that is widely known in order to sometimes gain power and take the attention off of the real issues that they, the country, or their religion faces.
1. Anti-Semitism is the segregation of Jews from all citizen rights.
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is when a person or a group of people blame their misfortunes on someone else.
3. Hateful images and speech can cause chaotic conflicts with those taking part of the hatred by harassing the people who are the ones being targeted by the images and speeches.
4. Political and religious leaders would espouse anti-Semitic ideas because they believe that the Jews are the evil race, trying to ruin their way of life.
1. Anti semitism is the racial discrimination and prejudice of Jews.
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is a person or group that has blame for misfortune within a community or nation placed on them. They have the ability of gaining the attention of both parties.
3. Hateful images and speech have the ability to cause tension between groups and lead to conflict.
4. Political and religious leaders would advocate anti Semitic ideas in order to turn their followers against a group that they see as inferior.
1.Anti-semitism is the segregation of Jews from their natural rights.
ReplyDelete2.A scapegoat is someone who takes the blame for some else's wrong doing.
3.Hateful images and speeches spark a fire. Sometimes, smoke is already in the air from a flame and these words and ideas feed from this smoke and only spread the smoke further, choking everything around.
4.Political and religious leaders were poisoned by the fire and smoke and came to believe and live by the views of anti-semitism. They truly came to believe that Jews were of a lower race and wanted to ensure they stayed in their place, if not throw them even lower.
1) Antisemitism is hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.
ReplyDelete2) A scapegoat is a person or group that something, usually bad, is blamed on them even though they did not do the act. People that scapegoat other people get out of responsibilities so they won't be persecuted.
3) Hateful images and speeches are an example of propaganda that presents someone or a group of people in a bad way which can influence the viewer to see the person or people that way.
4) Political or religious leaders would possibly expose anti-semitic ideas because Jews are easy targets to blame bad circumstances on.
1.Antisemitism is the discrimaination against Jews.
ReplyDelete2.Scalegoat is a person that usually is blamed for something they did not do.
3.An example of propaganda is hateful picture or saying. It influence the views to a person a certain way.
4.Political leader or Religious leaders will reveiw anti-Semitic ideas because Jews were a easily to blame.
1.Antisemitism is hostility or prejudice against Jews.
ReplyDelete2.Scapegoating is a person group of people who is blamed for something they did not do.
3.The use of hateful images makes attitudes change depending on who you agree with and usually an attitude of respect towards the mistreated and resentment of the oppressors.
4.Religous or political will use antisemitism in order to make person agree with them.
1) anti-Semitism is the discrimination against Jewish people.
ReplyDelete2) A scapegoat is someone or something who everyone blames their problems on or casts away.
3) Hateful images and speeches can influence everyone and sometimes poison their minds into thinking the same as they do.
4) Political or religious leaders would expose anti-Semitic ideas because Jews were a easy target to blame and made people believe that they were poison to the world and a lower race.
1.Antisemitism is hostility or prejudice against Jews.
ReplyDelete2.Scapegoating is a person group of people who is blamed for something they did not do.
3.The use of hateful images makes attitudes change depending on who you agree with and usually an attitude of respect towards the mistreated and resentment of the oppressors.
4.Religous or political will use antisemitism in order to make person agree with them.
1. Antisemitism is racial discrimination against Jews and their religion.
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is a person in which blame is placed upon. By scapegoating, a person can turn the attention from themselves in order to stay out of trouble.
3. Hateful images and speeches can effect certain people differently because many may follow the propaganda and the dictatorship but many may feel victimized by it.
4. Political and religious leaders use antisemitic ideas to make their followers agree with their beliefs and also make Jews a scapegoat for the country's problems.
1. Anti semitism is the hatred or descrimnation against Jews prominent during the holocaust.
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is a someone of something that gets blamed for something that they didn't do, such as how Jews got blamed for kristallnacht.
3. Hateful speech and images cause a feeling of ostricism and alienation.
4. Political leader did not want to risk their high ranking position and at the time in was popular belief to be anti Semitic so most people followed suit.
1} Antisemitism is prejudice of anyone of the Jewish belief .
ReplyDelete2} Scapegoat is when someone gets the blame for someone else's wrong doing . Someone gains leverage on the person they point their finger at to take the blame .
3} Hateful images and speeches will influence people to go one way or another to think about a group of certain people . Yes images and words reflect attitudes because certain things may reflect the attitude someone has for a certain group because of images or words people say .
4} Political or religious leaders could espouse Antisemitic ideas because they believe the Jews are easy to blame and are less then them .
~Cheyenne Bearden
1. Antisemitism is prejudice against the Jews and their religion. It is, in my opinion, against humanity and human rights to hate or discriminate someone by the simple fact that their beliefs isn't similar with your's.
ReplyDelete2."Scapegoat" is someone or something that people blame in order to save their skin.
3.Hateful images and speeches influence people in a negative way, urging them to violence and creating negative emotions against a specific comunity, person, religion, etc. Images and words reflect existing attitude that some people have and can increase it by saying that anatagonizing is right. However it also can create them. For instance if a person is not familiar with a subject(religion, politics, person) and his/her information is from someone who is against that subject, he/she will likely be against it too.
4. I'm not sure but most likely it's because they can gain something from antisemitism, be it money, power or influence.
What frustrates me the most is seeing good people that hate each other without a reason beacuse, and I know that it sounds childish, it's just not right. I think we all have at least one kind of hatred inside us(rasism, discrimination, antisemitism, etc.), but we constantly try to prove it's wrong and that's an achievment by itself.
Quick answer to question 3:
ReplyDeleteI think hateful images and speech can reflect an existing attitude towards a specific community of people as well as make others have the same attitude. Hitler was known to be a very successful orator and this helped him share his antisemitic ideas and convince others to support them.Throughout history antisemitic ideas were also reinforced through hateful images that depicted Jews as the source of all evil, blaming them for social and political problems and even for conspiring to dominate the world.
Having a "scapegoat", someone to blame for things that you did, someone to throw at the responsibility for certain actions that you or your people took, may feel good and liberating for people with a severe lack of conscience.
ReplyDeleteThe hatred that people had, and unfortunately still have for the jewish people, also called "antisemitism" made them become a "scapegoat" for a lot of negative things that happened in the past, things that were proven to have no relation with them.
The hateful images and speeches in which jewish people were presented as a major negative influence were meant to make people hate them, and they worked pretty well.
Leaders want their people to see them as fair persons, by any means, so blaming someone else to keep your reputation clean, for them, is an acceptable thing to do.
1. Antisemitism is prejudice against Jewish people for their race and religion.
ReplyDelete2. A scapegoat is a person blamed for other people's wrongdoings. In my opinion, people gain from scapegoating a lot of self-confidence, realizing they have the power to make someone else pay for their sins, even if this is the wrong way to deal with their mistakes.
3. Hateful images and speech are the best way to make ordinary people become antisemites, by making them believe that Jews are to blame for all their social, cultural or economic problems.
4. I think that political and religious leaders espouse antisemitic ideas because they want to maintain their hierarchical position in society and don't want to be blamed for not supporting the beliefs of their country.