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Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com)
Wed, 04 Dec 1996 12:52:27 -0500
Ron Kephart wrote:
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> Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote:
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> > How many people have died for you leftists' ideal world?
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> For the record, probably nowhere near as many as have died for the
> free-market capitalists' ideal world.
Comrade Satlin got at least fifty million, most of them in peacetime.
Mao did even better. I will admit, though, that "love and brotherhood"
idealism as an excuse for Christian slaughters is right up there in the
same league.
I am simply pointing out that you PC clones usually never mention
anything but racism as a cause of slaughter.
Your Marxist bit is at least a break in the monotony.
Thanks.
For starters, you have
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> (1) around 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas.
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> (2) ditto for the indigenous Australian population.
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> (3) who knows how many in the Pacific, Asia, etc.
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> (4) who knows how many in Africa, and that doesn't include the ten
> million or so that were transported involuntarily to the Americas,
> where their unpaid labor in the production of sugar and other market
> commodities (much more crucial to the global economy then than now)
> fueled the rise of global capitalism and the Industrial Revolution,
> which the Europeans and their descendants so love to take credit for.
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> (5) and, just to be fair, not a few Europeans.
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> If anybody can realistically add these numbers up, it would be
> interesting to hear about it. And by the way, I am not (necessarily)
> passing judgement here; just calling attention to the facts. It would
> also be interesting to compare this figure with a figure for
> casualties caused by leftists trying to construct their ideal world.
> Equally interesting would be a comparison with both Christianity and
> Islam, although, for Christianity at least it might not always be
> possible to separate religions from economic agendas (and vice versa).
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> Ron Kephart
> Unversity of North Florida
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