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1. What does that statement have to do with anything about the fact that millions of Africans were systematically kidnapped, raped and killed to feed the slave trade. Just remember, the other country's kids are always uglier than yours.
2. besides forgetting that the White Man knew exactly what he was doing when spreading germs amongst the native Americans (did you not learn about the Small Pox and Chlorea blankets they happily gave them), The restricting of Native Americans to reservations, driving them off their land, etc. contributed to their decline. Oh, so the massacres were rare, but the genocide was real.
3. Wow, you went to "Right Wing Propaganda" School, and got a Magnum Cum Laude in bullshit, didn't you.
The "Black Book of Communism" is considered a joke in most intellectual circles. Besides repeating a lot rather silly Cold War propaganda, it blames Communism (which is actually a pretty bad economic system) for ethnic and historical events.
Pol Pot did not kill a quarter of his country's population because they didn't believe in Marx. he killed them because of ethnic grudges that were excerbated by our policies. Nixon's bombing of Cambodia killed nearly 1 million Cambodians, while our puppet government under Lon Nol went along with it. In short, we brutalized these people, and then wondered why they acted like savages.
"...besides forgetting that the White Man knew exactly what he was doing when spreading germs amongst the native Americans (did you not learn about the Small Pox and Chlorea blankets they happily gave them),...'
Amazing what a compendium of fatuity you are.
That story is bogus....the only 'germs spread' are your liberal fables....
Learn:
1. Guenter Lewy (born 1923, Germany) is an author and historian[citation needed], and a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts. In September 2004, Lewy published an essay entitled Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide ?in which he says [Ward] Churchill's assertion that the U.S. Army intentionally spread smallpox among American Indians by distributing infected blankets in 1837 is false. Lewy calls Churchill's claim of 100,000 deaths from the incident "obviously absurd".
2. There is the often repeated story of Lord Jeffrey Amherst ordering the distribution of smallpox-infected blankets to the Indians, as an example of germ warfare used by Europeans. The story is not documented, except as a possibility.
See the study of Professor dErrico:
Historian Francis Parkman, in his book "The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada" [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians:
Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)]
I have not found this letter, but there is a letter from Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, three weeks before the discussion of blankets to the Indians, stating that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt (to which Bouquet would be heading with reinforcements) has reported smallpox in the Fort. This indicates at least that the writers knew the plan could be carried out.
It is curious that the specific plans to spread smallpox were relegated to postscripts.
Again: "I have not found this letter,..."
You liberal hand-wringers are laughable. There exists less scholarship, and more acceptance of gossip from you Liberals than is to be found in the junior high schools girls bath room.....
.....bet you believe that J.Edgar Hoover waltzed around in a dress....
3. "The "Black Book of Communism" is considered a joke in most intellectual circles."
First of all, how would you know any thing about "intellectual circles"????
You use that hackneyed excuse every time a scholarly work rams a stake through your propaganda.
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a book authored by several European academics and edited by Stéphane Courtois,[1] which describes a history of repressions, both political and civilian, by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines. The book was originally published in 1997 in France under the title Le Livre noir du communisme: Crimes, terreur, répression by Éditions Robert Laffont. In the United States it is published by Harvard University Press.[2]
^ *Stéphane Courtois is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Nicolas Werth is a researcher at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP) in Paris.
Jean-Louis Panné is a specialist on the international Communist movement.
Andrzej Paczkowski is the deputy director of the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the archival commission for the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Karel Bartoek (19302004) was a historian from the Czech Republic, and a researcher at IHTP.
Jean-Louis Margolin is a lecturer at the Université de Provence and a researcher as the Research Institute on Southeast Asia.
Sylvain Boulougue is a research associate at GEODE, Université Paris X.
Pascal Fontaine is a journalist with a special knowledge of Latin America.
Rémi Kauffer is a specialist in the history of intelligence, terrorism, and clandestine operations.
Pierre Rigoulet is a researcher at the Institut d'Histoire Sociale.
Yves Santamaria is a historian.
The Black Book of Communism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's another bet....bet you've never read the tome....have you?
Turns out you're the joke, huh?
And not even an honest joke....
....simply a buffoon poseur.