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i really dont understand your point, ustwo.
and i am not sure a paranoia thread is the best place for a debate about it.
but anyway--->
so the american extermination of the native american population is not an example of genocide why exactly?
because the "morals and thought of the day" made of it an acceptable campaign?
what genocide is possible without the collusion of the "morals and thought of the day" exactly?
remember what i am sure you'd prefer to forget: the american policies toward the native americans were an inspiration for the ottoman campaign against the armenians, for the nazi campaigns against political opposition, "social deviance" and, later, against the jews.
remember as well that a condition of possibility for genocide is the neutralization of ethical problems that should attend extermination of a population.
if you think that western democracies are not capable of such ethical neutralization, you are kidding yourself.
and there is no apologia for stalinism implied by the above.
if you want to simply issue one-dimensional condemnations of the actions of political regimes that you disapprove of on other grounds, then fine: but the waters in which you play are shallow. if you want to try to understand how such actions as genocide are possible, then it makes little sense to start off by exempting your own context from any possible involvement in such an action, particularly when it is obvious that the united states is as it is BECAUSE of such an action.
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