• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Genocidal violence is a normal behavior of19th and 20th century European cultures. You might be able to prevent some specific genocidal acts, but the only the annihilation of late 19th century and early 20th century Europeans, itself an act of genocide, would keep the fuckers from doing genocides.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The Holocaust was simply the European propensity for mass killing intersecting with novel technologies like the computer, the internal combustion engine, and novel developments in chemistry. What the English did with famine and the Belgians did with machetes, the Germans did with gas. Colonial nations had engaged in the targetted killing of vast numbers of people before then and achieved mass murder with great efficiency. The Germans simply brought these processes back to the European continent and combined them with the latest developments in technology.