What is Genocide? The definition I found online is- Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; ...Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
In its basic form the reason why the Ku Klux Klan exterminated the African Americans is because the white people thought that the color of the black peoples' skin is bad for Christianity and to make it better they must exterminate the African Americans to purge their land. Another reason why is probably the Darwin's theory of evolution or "Survival of the Fittest" which then created a social ladder or pyramid in which white-man is on top and black man on bottom, along with the Asians and other races scattered along the middle.
Racial Genocide really depends on the social ladder if white-man is on top then they would want everyone to be white in which will cause a demented person to start purging others until they are left. If there are at least two people on the earth someone will want the other dead. I bet that if the social ladder were different there wouldn't be a KKK or the motive for the massacres would be different.
Another type of genocide is between two different beliefs for example the Sunnis and the Shiites in Iraq. One side believes that the next should not be in the same blood lineage as Muhammad and the says that it should be divine right that the people of lineage to Muhammad should be leader. Another genocide similar to this one but not the same is between the Jews and the German Nazis or the Holocaust. Basically the Germans wanted the Jews dead because Hitler hated himself for also being a Jew and wanted extermination of them.
That's just what I've heard. But my real thoughts on Human Nature is not really the whole genocide thing but the need to overcome obstacles. For example, the entire "wanting to be the best race is the humans" or trying to overcome their differences so that the most advanced species of human is left. Also when you really look into it, Humans want to overcome sickness and other obstacles. Another perspective to me is that religion plays a big role in a lot of deaths in the world not just wars but executions in the old days.
I found this out from my dad the other day, Another form of genocide is called democide or when the government murder an individual under municipal law Its a lot like having a parent let their son or daughter die from Mal nutrition. Although most people say this is wrong, but to me Genocide and communism is kind of the same, I looked online for a list of mass democides and it came up with this
Japan's Savage Military
The Khmer Rouge Hell State
Turkey's Ethnic Purges
The Vietnamese War State
Poland's Ethnic Cleansing
The Pakistani Cutthroat State
Tito's Slaughterhouse
Orwellian North Korea
Barbarous Mexico
Feudal Russia
I was surprised when I saw this because I didn't know that there were so many. The reason I think that genocide and communism is the same is because genocide is a series of massacres due to different beliefs, and communism is murders due to different political views. For example when Admiral Zhao traveled to San Francisco, and came back to tell the emperor that there is new land, the emperor had different political views, he believed in not expanding and let China be a nation on its own because it had such a large leap in technology. So what happened was he had tea with Zhao and in the other room, he had guards kill his entire family and burn all the ships and items from America. That was murder and genocide due to different beliefs. So genocide and communism are pretty much the same.
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