Carnage That College Ignores

Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 15, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Carnage That College Ignores

Malcolm A. Kline, April 15, 2010

Storied Soviet dictator Josef Stalin once famously said that one man’s death is a tragedy, a thousand is a statistic. He and his successors compiled so many human statistics that the unfortunately few academics and intellectuals who are trying to ascertain the true number are still working on it.

“One cannot discuss the past, present, or future while they lay there unacknowledged,” University of Pennsylvania historian Alan Charles Kors pointed out in a speech to the Atlas Foundation last November. “We are surrounded by slain innocents and the scale is wholly new.”

“This is not the thousands of the Inquisition, it is not the thousands of American lynching, this is not the six million dead from Nazi extermination.” Kors is the co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

“The best scholarship yields numbers that the mind must try to comprehend—scores and scores and scores and scores of millions of bodies, all around us,” Kors said on November 9, 2009. “Martin Malia, author of The Soviet Tragedy, with only partial views of the Russian Archives, posited 20 million dead.”

“Robert Conquest, who’d been right all along, argued in his revision of the Great Terror for yet more millions of deaths.” When I went to see a lecture Conquest gave at the Smithsonian back in the 1990s with a student from Marquette, the young man told me that the professor who taught his Soviet studies course never even mentioned this death toll: That professor was George McGovern, the former Democratic senator who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1972....

[Lurker]

Democide

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[a fool in paradise]

The Soviet Tragedy, with only partial views of the Russian Archives, posited 20 million dead.”

yes, it is rotten is deserves to be exposed.

One more thing that needs exposure.

FIFTY MILLION people have been slaughtered in the United States alone since Roe. v. Wade was decided in 1973. Even Jane Roe now calls it wrong.

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[Sherman Logan]

this is not the six million dead from Nazi extermination."

I get very tired of this inaccuracy.

The Nazis killed 6M Jews. They also killed 6M to 10M non-Jews.

If we talk only about the 6M Jews it implies the dead non-Jews aren't important.

[Darth Reardon]

I’ve always heard the quote as a million, not a thousand. A quick web search pulls up a page full of “million(s)” and not a single “thousand”.

Accuracy in Academia?

[Vehmgericht]

Are the non-Jews Unimportant? I don’t know. Where are their monuments, their museums? If they have no monuments, important people must believe they were unimportant. Academia is not the only field that ignores these deaths. How many movies have been made about the millions of tragedies that make up these “statistics.” How about news coverage of the Ukrainian famine, the Cambodian holocaust?