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To: discostu

I don’t accept wikipedia for anything other than birth dates, and I question some of those. I certainly don’t read it. I also think links are an inferior, lazy way to respond to an argument.
The term genocide did not even exist until the 20th century. If you can’t perceive the difference between an invasion/war and massive round-ups of citizens by its own government for the purpose of exterminating their race -


62 posted on 10/04/2013 2:51:01 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

you can “not accept” it all you want. But out here in reality trying to wipe sections of humanity off the planet goes back as long as we’ve been subdividing humanity, the fact that it took us until the 20th century to come up with an English word for it just shows where our priorities were on that front: the doing not the describing.

I perceive the difference just fine. You’re the one that’s missing it. If you think the extermination of the Midianites, or Carthage, or the Anasazi, or the Tata Mongols, were just wars and not genocide you are simply deliberately and pointlessly confused.


63 posted on 10/04/2013 2:58:17 PM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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