German Pogram Rhetorical Analysis

There are many instances of countries and societies falling at one point because of rejection to human exceptionalism. The perfect society that some of the leaders have envisioned does not exist, but yet, history keeps repeating itself in different forms. The video, Kristallnacht German pogram of 1938, is an example of the German’s society fear of failing, and because they were sinking into a depression along with some of the other nations within the world, they chose to blame those who were unique and had a different faith, the Jews. The German people had stood by and let the synagogues burn without a fight. The radical measures that people take, such as the Nazi’s did, by executing millions of Jews because they were different, as well as expanding their radical measures to the deaths of millions of more homosexuals, gypsies, non-Jewish interracial spouses, as well as other religions that were

Stating, “what religious privileges we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights: and these favors we receive at the expense of such degrading acknowledgments, as are inconsistent with the rights of freemen.” (Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 2016.). Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists stated clearly that he “contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American People which declared their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” (Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 2016.). The separation of church and state was an important part of the U.S. Constitution, and that all Americans have the right to religion. Although Jefferson had his own belief in god, like many Americans, others may have a different idea of god, and shouldn’t be infringed for their