I never said owe, and you bringing up extract seems unnecessarily hostile when I said it’s about whether or not it matters to you.

Now you said it did, so if that’s the case and you’re down to assist voluntarily, I think the relevance is that Jews face the highest per capita hate crime rate and tracing why this did not happen randomly but builds on a pattern of both state sponsored and non-state based discrimination is useful to understanding how we ended up in a place where Jews are focused on disproportionately. And this understanding is important to changing this.

It’s not you having caused them, it’s whether or not it matters to you to resolve their consequences - and I see the consequences as related and real. Seems you agree their are consequences and they’re related to their history, I guess the disagreement is you feel the consequences are overblown.

Hmm, that’s what I suspected. I don’t see that as compatible with also acknowledging it should stop.

If you agree historical wrongs are linked to modern society, it becomes are a legacy we need to acknowledge. Not to just feel guilty about, but because addressing then requires a specific understanding of their context. As you’ve acknowledged injustice happens to a bunch of groups, all in their own ways, so we can only address it by understanding specifics.

P.S. I hope my tone doesn’t seem off in anyway - this was just a conversation I’ve been hoping to have

I guess. I would be curious why you think that’s important context to keep this within?

I don’t know if I find comments like these constructive. Addressing historical wrongs (which inform today’s society) requires understanding what happened. Responding to someone saying “something bad happened” with “well, something bad happened to all these other people” doesn’t do much to increase the specificity of our understanding of injustice