more on "ethnic cleansing"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sure, Dan. "Violent and terror-inspiring," but most punctiliously carried
out, perhaps by only lightly armed "relocation counselors."

JL




On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The official definition of "ethnic cleansing" is "a purposeful policy
> designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and
> terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or
> religious group from certain geographic areas". No deaths required.
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > Even this is becoming blandly propagandistic. And considering the
> > pretensions of the book it's in, disturbingly so:
> >
> > 2009 Ishmael Reed in Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, eds. _A New Literary
> > History of America_ (Cambridge: Harvard U.P.) 384:
> > The late Rick James asked an interviewer why there was more interest in
> > Michael Jackson's trial for child molesting than in the war in Iraq,
> where
> > the American occupation was causing ethnic cleansing and the deaths of
> tens
> > of thousands.
> >
> > Prof. Reed, of course, is a noted surrealist novelist and poet, author,
> > among many other works, of _Mumbo Jumbo_.
> >
> > The presence of "and" makes the claim (asserted as fact, by the way) even
> > more absurd, since it implies a methodical campaign even beyond the
> "deaths
> > of tens of thousands."  (If Reed meant to say that various Iraqi factions
> > were trying to kill and "cleanse" each other, he carefully avoided saying
> > it.)
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> > JL
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