Episode 2 IS PUBLIC MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST PRIVILEGED OVER HISTORIES OF COLONIAL VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE?

Professor Steven Robins (sociology and social anthropology,
Stellenbosch University) and Dr Lwazi Lushaba (poltical studies,
University of Cape Town) debated whether or not comparisons
between the experiences of Jewish people and Black people are of
any moral or intellectual use. 


Various themes emerged including a debate about whether or not Dr
Lushaba is essentialising whiteness in his insistence that the
Holocaust is to be understood as "white people killing other
white people". Professor Robins takes issue with this
position. 


Questions about public memory, and whose oppression is
privileged, led to some heated but productive disagreement. And
along the way there is also a discussion about whether Dr Lushaba
should take back his words that Hitler "committed no crime".