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[scottobear]

Here's some food for thought.

Top ranked Atrocities

I wonder How many folks have even have even heard of the top ten.

or any aside from WWII and Russia?

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[burgundy.livejournal.com]

I'd at least heard of 23 out of 30. Ick.

My junior year in high school, our world history teacher decided that rather than spend a huge amount of time on the Holocaust, she'd just go over what was in the book, and devote the rest of the time to the Turkish killing of the Armenians, and the Khmer Rouge, with the idea that we should know that the Holocaust was not an isolated event. Just about all the other Jewish kids were incensed, as was the Hebrew teacher. Because of course, the history teacher must be anti-Semitic to do this, right? It made me so angry. This was an honors course in a very good high school. Anyone in this class already knew everything they needed to know about the Holocaust, but how many people know about the other events? It still makes me mad, just thinking about their responses. Whatever happened to "never again"? For too many people, this means "never again to the Jews." As long as we think we're the only ones to experience genocide, we can sit back and allow other people to be slaughtered without bothering ourselves about it.

Sorry, bit of a rant there.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Well, I bet you easily have doubled the average. I thinkit's good to know that the the holocaust wasn't a singularity, only the biggest in a long running smash of horror.

I'm glad that you've picked up info... far too many folks these days don't even know there was a korean war, outside of M*A*S*H. I'm happy that there's a few folks under 30 that are aware of history.

I could rant about that, all night long.

[drownedinink.livejournal.com]

I had absolutely no idea that the Korean War would have even ranked in such a list. No wonder its called the Forgotten War.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

A lot of damage was done...