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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:37:23 -0400
Christopher Chase wrote:
>By "Holocaust" or Stalinist standards the virtual eradication of American
>Indian culture and people is not an instance of genocide...however I have
>heard cogent and convincing arguments that under a reasonable definition
>of "genocide" the American Indians could be said to have had their own
>Holocaust.
>It just took longer.
Yes, by all means it's important to make these distinctions. Slow genocide
isn't as bad as quick genocide. You're a creative thinker, I've got to hand
you that.
>Having said that, I don't think we need to call Milosevic and the Serbian
>people's
>actions "genocide" to merit intervention by a foreign power.
Oh really? Why's that? Is this a new principle of international relations -
we'll bomb you just because we feel like it?
Doug