Is another holocaust-scale genocide possible?

Started by Syt, September 14, 2015, 05:02:20 AM

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Quote from: Razgovory on September 14, 2015, 10:17:34 AM
Quote from: Valmy on September 14, 2015, 10:14:41 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 14, 2015, 10:07:35 AM
Could easily see it happening in India as the Hindu's solve their, "Muslim problem".  I doubt many would really care.

What a bunch of bullshit. India is pluralistic and tolerant.

Is this a joke? :huh:

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Jaron

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

And if there is another major genocide, it will be in Europe. Either by or against Europeans.
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Grey Fox

Does holocaust scale means the number of dead or the way it was organize?
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Razgovory

Quote from: Jaron on September 14, 2015, 11:09:05 AM
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.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Zanza

I find a repetition of a Rwanda or Armenia or Cambodia style genocide more likely than the repetition of the industrialised holocaust.

Jaron

Quote from: Razgovory on September 14, 2015, 11:15:43 AM
Quote from: Jaron on September 14, 2015, 11:09:05 AM
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 was 13 years ago. It hasn't happened on that scale since. All of your other examples are activities in rural villages and those do not support your case.
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Ideologue

If you buy into near-apocalyptic global warming predictions (and, unfortunately, you probably should) I think genocides are very likely, although more like colonial genocides than directed efforts to wipe out specific internal groups.  Permanently closing mouths at home is bound to be less popular than securing food and resources abroad at the expense of out-of-sight outgroups.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Zanza on September 14, 2015, 11:26:17 AM
I find a repetition of a Rwanda or Armenia or Cambodia style genocide more likely than the repetition of the industrialised holocaust.

Yup.  Of those, Rwanda most likely IMO.

Norgy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 14, 2015, 04:33:20 PM
Quote from: Zanza on September 14, 2015, 11:26:17 AM
I find a repetition of a Rwanda or Armenia or Cambodia style genocide more likely than the repetition of the industrialised holocaust.

Yup.  Of those, Rwanda most likely IMO.

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