There is a hegemony that regards the European holocaust as more tragic and horrific than any other experience that people have had to endure. That is simply not true.

American society does not treat enslavement with the same response as the Jewish Holocaust, Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler writes, but his method is comparative, which is not the method one wants to use when discussing crimes against humanity. Rather than unifying diverse peoples around common forms of political pain and suffering, the comparative method used in this way divides them.