genocide

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no problem with the older quote except for the words "one or more".

And rightly so! Otherwise, a good old American lynching could be
counted as an act of genocide against, in the relevant context,
horse-thieves and cattle rustlers. Even when you take into
consideration the more-stereotypical lynching of black people, the
intention was only to "keep them in their place" and not to erase them
entirely from the face of the earth.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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