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Out of curiosity, what makes it the first modern genocide? At what point do the other genocides leading up to the holocaust not count as modern?
by bumped 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes it the first modern genocide? At what point do the other genocides leading up to the holocaust not count as modern?
- eru 15y agoPerhaps it's `first' as in `most on people's mind'?
- Symmetry 15y agoI would say that a pre-modern genocide would be done that was committed by roving bands of soldiers, rather than a bureaucracy. A bit of research reveals I was wrong in my assumptions, though, and the Armenian genocide certainly counts by that metric. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
- bumped 15y agoThat was the exact one I was thinking of. I really think you should look at the source that I linked to though. IBM knew what it was participating in and has since apologized (though never paid for it).
- hnsmurf 15y agoWWII is, in many ways, the demarcation point of the modern era. Almost every facet of life was changed. Women entered the workforce, agriculture and industry were more or less entirely rewritten. In terms of genocide, it was the first one to use computers. It used systematic, organizational principles similar to what a business might use. It created a set of processes both to carry it out and to make the population accept and even participate in the unspeakable.
- chopsueyar 15y agoThey didn't use IBM's machines.