Maybe not a million, but the Trail of Tears was certainly an east coast tribe. I'm sure the Germans did not consider the jewry "their own people" either. Even the Chinese and Russian famines were a split between central bureaucratic inflexibility and the farmers who actually grew the food. Stalin killed maybe a few hundred thousand by direct political purges. The other tens of millions was all agricultural incompetence.
Rwanda, Cambodia and Turkey while we're at it, though they're in no danger of hosting an Olympics soon.
And yes, the arms race of rhetoric has thoroughly polluted the sting of many words.
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Date: 2009-10-07 06:19 am (UTC)Rwanda, Cambodia and Turkey while we're at it, though they're in no danger of hosting an Olympics soon.
And yes, the arms race of rhetoric has thoroughly polluted the sting of many words.