Posted on 03/18/2011 7:33:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
But as one poster pointed out, once it passes a certain point, the numbers aren’t even comprehensible. No question, socialism in its various incarnations has been the single greatest cause of death in the history of mankind. And where it doesn’t kill, it always trails clouds of misery.
Anyone clinging to such a failed model must be pathologically misanthropic.
Fraticide, Commicide & Obamacide
Social-Liberal heaven?
More importantly, “In the mind of westerners, the people that matter are individuals. Few mourn people without names. There are just too many of them.”
America will go to war to save the lives of a few hostages, risking the death of dozens or hundreds to save individuals. But when we see a place like Pol Pot’s Cambodia, or the Rwandan genocide, while we abhor and deplore what happens, these are faceless, nameless people.
This isn’t racism. Were a handful of ethnic Cambodian or Rwandan Canadians taken hostage, and Americans were moved by their plight as individuals, we might very well risk our lives to save them. Because they had faces, and were individuals.
In other words, where is the Ukrainian, “Anne Frank”?
Not the best example, since her book was first published in 1947, and only published in English in 1952.
Prior to the war, however, there had been lots of Jews living in the US, and they lobbied on behalf of Jews being persecuted in Europe, though to little effect. In the case of both them and the Armenians persecuted during their genocide, earlier, there had been some sympathetic Americans, but not enough to sway popular opinion.
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