I receive the impression some Jews carry an absurd guilt or desolate feeling of insignificance for not having been there. Concurrently, blacks talk about suffering 300 years of slavery as though they were there. Once again there is demand for reparations for that 300 years. Nobody has suffered 300 years of anything because people don't live to be 300 years old. While slavery should be viewed as an unjust and intolerable institution anywhere, enslavement of their ancestors was in fact an incalculable benefit to present day American blacks.
Most people come from a historical background of holocausts and enslavement in one form or another.
Mature intelligent people lay it down and get on with their lives. They build a present rather than fabricate a lifetime career over reciting an ancestral past. Over the last 35 years I have become progressively concerned with analyzing the seeking of self-imposed suffering that is more than compensated by a secondary reward. This is seen in a type of willing victimhood in which people make themselves social causes. Actresses or other public figures, or would-be public figures, display an agony of sincere belief, but what they believe is often twisted in nature.