more on "ethnic cleansing"

[Dan Goncharoff]

"Punctiliously carried out, perhaps by only lightly armed 'relocation
counselors' -- isn't that how the French dealt with the gypsies last year?

DanG

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Sure, Dan. "Violent and terror-inspiring," but most punctiliously carried
> out, perhaps by only lightly armed "relocation counselors."
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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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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> > DanG
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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
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> > > 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.)
> > >
> > >
> > > JL
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