Rosenbaum Chapter 17

In David E. Stannard's essay entitled, "Uniqueness of Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship," Stannard argues that scholars such as Steven Katz ad Yehuda Bauer, have placed a uniqueness on the Holocaust, particularly that of Jewish uniqueness, and in effect have de-victimized other groups involved in genocide. Stannard uses four examples in which scholars try to base the uniqueness argument: death statistics, cause of death, dehumanization, and intent. Scholars have argued that each of these examples is unique to the Jewish Holocaust when in fact, as Stannard points out, each one of the examples or proof of uniqueness was quite similar to other genocides, particularly the removal of Native Americans. With this proof at hand, Stannard asserts that scholars such as Katz and Bauer, in their denial of other genocides, are actually racist.

Side Note: I particularly liked this essay because you could really see the authors emotions in this piece of work. You could tell that when he wrote this he was quite pissed about how scholars have been de-vitimizing other groups that have undergone similar circumstances.