I think a black man could make a similar argument, but both would lose out to a Jewish person as far as being able to document a history of unfounded persecution.
Anything the ID'ers and such can do for attention, I suppose...
I guess a better way to have put it would be that LOTS of groups of people have actually been persecuted and abused/"cleansed"/wiped out in a manner more honest to the claim.
Perhaps the scientific communities' effort to correct wrong info IS a persecution of sorts...I'm just not seeing how it's bad.