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Darfur, from wikipedia: "Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians [72] while certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coal

Darfur, from wikipedia: "Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians [72] while certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, controversially claim that over 400,000 people have been killed.[73]" Compare that to WWII: "Most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilian" Looking at North Korea and Iraq, every single person in those countries could die and that still wouldn't exceed the body count from WWII, not to mention WWI or any of the truly pointless European conflicts before that. Even comparing Iraq to Vietnam, do you know what that war did to that country? Millions and millions of civilians were killed, an order of magnitude worse than even the extreme estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths. Forced labor worldwide? Slavery was legal in the US 150 years ago. Now it is not -- in fact, we just elected a black president.

Qz 16y ago
I didn't compare any of those examples to all of WW2, but rather you rour example of the 100k japanese interned during WW2. And despite that, suffering can't be gauged merely on the number of people killed. You said: "Have you seen any witches burned recently? Have 100K Japanese people on the west coast been put into camps recently?" And my response was to indicate that tragedies like those are still happening in modern times, for very much the same reasons. "Forced labor worldwide? Slavery was legal in the US 150 years ago. Now it is not -- in fact, we just elected a black president." You response seems to have little to do with my point. Forced labor is a worldwide problem. Reciting US history to me does little to discredit that. I'd like to know what Obama has done recently to stop the sex trafficking of girls from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia.

Qz 16y ago

I didn't compare any of those examples to all of WW2, but rather you rour example of the 100k japanese interned during WW2. And despite that, suffering can't be gauged merely on the number of people killed. You said: "Have you seen any witches burned recently? Have 100K Japanese people on the west coast been put into camps recently?" And my response was to indicate that tragedies like those are still happening in modern times, for very much the same reasons. "Forced labor worldwide? Slavery was legal in the US 150 years ago. Now it is not -- in fact, we just elected a black president." You response seems to have little to do with my point. Forced labor is a worldwide problem. Reciting US history to me does little to discredit that. I'd like to know what Obama has done recently to stop the sex trafficking of girls from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia.