Revisionists claim that Jews and Jewish historians emphasize both the uniqueness and the destructiveness of the Holocaust in order to gain moral authority that grants social power.
American historians concentrate on their exploitation and destruction by the U.S. government.
All groups are more interested in their own history than are others, and in a pluralistic society like America it is not constructive to get caught up in a contest over whose persecution is worse. By a general definition it would certainly be reasonable for Native- Americans to claim to have been the victims of a holocaust. Likewise, the enslavement of Africans in the Americas may also be considered a type of general holocaust. Other terms have been used to describe holocausts. Neither Jews, nor Native- Americans, nor Africans were properly armed or organized for hostilities against foreign or domestic powers.