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I don't think that is true at all. There have been many genocides throughout history, but how many have been characterized as industrial, documented, in need o
by Crito 11y ago
I don't think that is true at all. There have been many genocides throughout history, but how many have been characterized as industrial, documented, in need of logistics, or particularly concerned with false identification?
Well the last one is questionable at all, but generally speaking the Holocaust is spoken of as fairly unique in those other regards.
The general rule of thumb is that the only thing you need for a genocide is a bunch of men willing to do it. You don't need trains or camps. You don't need gas chambers or tabulating machines. You just need willing men.
- venomsnake 11y agoDepends when indiscriminate killing turns into genocide. If I say - kill everyone in this city, and don't care about false positives, it is mass killing. The genocide requires precision. And lets take srebrenica - finding all the muslim men and executing them is obviously harder than just killing everyone in that area.
- tormeh 11y agoShiboleth. Genocide is older than dirt.
- Crito 11y agoEthnic cleansing is much more straightforward than you are making it out to be. How is it that these people can be targeted with discrimination or verbal abuse hurled from across the street, but those same racists armed with murderous intentions would be unable to find them? That's just silly. Humans have been doing this longer than we've been writing down our own history. "Industrial" genocides like the Holocaust are the exception, not the rule.