Is another holocaust-scale genocide possible?

[Norgy]

grumbler most likely is Adam, but won't admit to it. 

[Jaron]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

[Valmy]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

The food just gets thrown out if we don't eat it.

[Valmy]

These seem like fringe attacks and mostly in isolated areas. I do not think a wide scale massacre would happen in India.

Calling the Gujaret riots fringe and isolated is like calling the Odessa pogroms an outlier.

That happened 12 years ago and have been roundly denounced. These things may happen again on a small scale in India but you are never going to see some kind of mass genocide of Muslims.

[Martinus]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

The food just gets thrown out if we don't eat it.

France just recently introduced a law that prohibits grocery stores from throwing away food - any food they no longer want to sell must be given away to food banks and charities. This is a great idea, imo, and should make them think twice about over-stocking.

[Martinus]

Anyway, to answer the OP question, where there's a will, there's a way.

[Razgovory]

These seem like fringe attacks and mostly in isolated areas. I do not think a wide scale massacre would happen in India.

Calling the Gujaret riots fringe and isolated is like calling the Odessa pogroms an outlier.

They happened 12 years ago and have been roundly denounced. These things may happen again on a small scale in India but you are never going to see some kind of mass genocide of Muslims.

You see smaller things happen fairly regularly.  Terrorist attacks, riots, murders etc.  These often kill like a dozen people apiece.  I'd say there is a strong atmosphere of hatred there.  It doesn't help that a Hindu nationalist is the head of the government there.

Where do you get the idea that they are India is particularly tolerant?

[Valmy]

You see smaller things happen fairly regularly.  Terrorist attacks, riots, murders etc.  These often kill like a dozen people apiece.  I'd say there is a strong atmosphere of hatred there.  It doesn't help that a Hindu nationalist is the head of the government there.

Where do you get the idea that they are India is particularly tolerant?

More than 20 official languages. Untold dozens of ethnic groups. Three major religious groups (And many many minor ones). India could collapse almost immediately if they went all Hindu nationalist. It would be so against their national interest, and basic ideology, I just do not see it happening.

[Valmy]

France just recently introduced a law that prohibits grocery stores from throwing away food - any food they no longer want to sell must be given away to food banks and charities. This is a great idea, imo, and should make them think twice about over-stocking.

Interesting. If it works everybody should copy that. Food insecurity in the US would disappear over night.

[Eddie Teach]

Where do you get the idea that they are India is particularly tolerant?

Gandhi.

[Valmy]

Indira Ghandi was such a model of tolerance 

[Eddie Teach]

Indira Ghandi was such a model of tolerance 

She isn't one of the leaders in Civ.

Asoka's pretty friendly too. 

[crazy canuck]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

The food just gets thrown out if we don't eat it.

As callous as that may sound it is true.  The problem isn't food production but food distribution.

[Malthus]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

The food just gets thrown out if we don't eat it.

As callous as that may sound it is true.  The problem isn't food production but food distribution.

Reminds me of the old "eat what's on your plate - remember, there are people starving in [country with terrible problems]".

To which the kid's reply is some variant on "please, send people in [country] my broccoli".

[Norgy]

We Westerners eat too much. If we learned to love less food then we'd have enough food on hand to last for generations. As is, everyone must have seconds...and thirds...

The food just gets thrown out if we don't eat it.

France just recently introduced a law that prohibits grocery stores from throwing away food - any food they no longer want to sell must be given away to food banks and charities. This is a great idea, imo, and should make them think twice about over-stocking.

Fully agree. In most cases, date labelling is completely arbitrary. Eggs are perhaps the best case. Eggs do not spoil for months if stored coolly. Not sure if that applies to the EU's chlamydia-ebola-e-coli-salmonella-infested eggs, but it certainly does here in Socialist Paradise.