Is America still genocidal? According to the Teflon Theory of White History the answer is no: the last full-blown genocide was in the 1800s. That was too long ago, so it has absolutely no effect on the present. To prove your case you need to provide Recent Examples:
- Because wiping out over a million people could not possibly affect White American ideas about race and human worth. Or be a sign of how screwed up they might still be;
- Because enjoying the material fruits of said genocide could not possibly cause a serious case of Moral Blindness in which white people turn a blind eye to the very faults that led to genocide.
Genocide is a crime. And like with other crimes, those who have done it once are more likely to do it again. Sudan has carried out two genocides in my lifetime. Ethiopia and what used to be Yugoslavia are also repeat offenders.What about America?
Genocides unfold in eight stages:
- Classification: the division into “us and them”. Example: Asking an Asian American what country he is from.
- Symbolization: applying symbols to the them to mark them out as pariahs, as objects of hate. Examples: black skin, yellow stars, race or religion on ID cards.
- Dehumanization: seeing the pariahs as not truly human. Example: the word “nigger”.
- Organization: training and arming. Example: the Ku Klux Klan.
- Polarization: silencing the voices in the middle that still stand up for the pariahs. Example: calling whites who stand up for blacks “nigger lovers”.
- Preparation: separating the pariahs from everyone else. Examples: ghettos, prison camps.
- Extermination: mass killings. Example: the Holocaust.
- Denial: dispute the numbers, blame history, see it as “natural”, derail discussions about it, etc. Examples: The comments on this post?
The first step is “natural”, as Americans would put it, meaning it is common to all human societies. It is when it moves beyond Stage 1 that something is going seriously wrong.
White America has gone beyond Stage 1 not once but at least three times:
- Stage 7: 1600s to 1800s: Native Americans
- Stage 5: 1870s to 1950s: blacks
- Stage 6: 1940s: Japanese Americans
Where different sorts of Americans are now:
- Stage 0: whites
- Stage 1: Asians, Mexicans, Muslims
- Stage 2:
- Stage 3: blacks
- Stage 4:
- Stage 5:
- Stage 6:
- Stage 7:
- Stage 8: Native Americans ?
Jews I would put at 0.6, Muslims, at 1.8.
I am not sure if Native Americans are an 8: I put them there because in my experience whites are not comfortable talking about it and try to derail. If you cannot admit to a fault there is little chance of change. Like a drunk who thinks he is not a drunk.
But even apart from that, you still have blacks at 3. Deep down whites think of blacks as monkeys. That makes it easier to kill them or, what is most commonly the case, to stand by and do little when they die in large numbers, as during the heroin and crack epidemics and the high murder rates that followed.
See also:
Genocide (1943) is like homocide, but where homocide is the murder of one man (Latin, homo), genocide is the murder of a people (Latin, gens). Like what Hitler did to the Jews, what Americans did to the American Indians or what the Hutus did to the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
Killing soldiers is not genocide – that is just war. But killing women and children and old men – unarmed people – just to wipe them out because of their race, religion, country or culture – like Jews, Armenians and Tutsis – that is genocide.
Abagond 