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Would you say that the darker people are, the more acceptable it is to kill them?
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Yes-when you dehumanise them with labels

It is easy to scapegoat people who look different. It is easy to demonise 'the other'.

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Odocoileus 3 months ago

Seems that when genocide occurs in Africa, it is black on black crime. When genocide happens in Europe, it is white on white crime. So history has little to support any answer that some one may add to this topic.

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Goliath 3 months ago

The American Slave Trade
South African Apartheid
Native Americans
Vietnamese
Hawaii
Mayans and Aztecs
Arabs

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Odocoileus 3 months ago

Your right, Ok white people do kill and or take the land of darker skinned people. Yet the darkness of the skin is not the motivation, their land or what ever it was that lead to slavery is the reason white people did those things.

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Goliath 3 months ago

Yah... But if the shoe was on the other foot for a day there would be hysteria on the news networks. I think if the people in East Timor were white they would be like OMFG! People are dying! We have to do something!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvl_D7Z5emU

More specifically my question is based on "NEWS worthy" topics.

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This topic was started by Goliath Goliath has 3,699 Grupie Points on April 22nd, 2008. 4 grupies have voted on one or more of the 2 answers.

Tags: embargo, genocide, history, humanitarianism, war

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