Pat Buchanan: “First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.”

This is an old argument: African Americans have benefited from their ancestors coming here as slaves. They’d be worse off in Africa. Therefore, slavery is a net positive.

Of course, the same could be said of American Jews: The Eastern European Jews who fled the Holocaust certainly benefited from being here rather than behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Better living standards. Less anti-semitism. You could argue that aside from Israel, this is the best country for Jews to live in.

So by Buchanan’s logic (and that of other conservatives who use the Thank God For Slavery argument), the Holocaust is a net positive, and American Jews should be glad it happened.

Do we see a flaw here?

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