Also, how will this month's United Nation's vote on Israel's border affect the United States if the Palestinian's demands are met?
What are your thoughts on these subjects?
Monday, September 12, 2011
Eliminationism without war: unresolved threats
Also, how will this month's United Nation's vote on Israel's border affect the United States if the Palestinian's demands are met?
What are your thoughts on these subjects?
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We need to be very careful about using the word genocide. Genocide is strictly the targeted elimination ( murder) of a group of people. In order for any of these to be considered genocide, they would have to be deliberately used against an entire group of people by force of a group or government, and while this unfortunately does happen in our modern world, I don't think you can say that it is happening in the United States. All groups are the victims of unemployment, incarceration etc. Some groups may be disproportionately affected, but I don't believe that in most cases, a particular group is targeted. What we do need to do is educate our population to create better intercultural understanding and a better society in general.
ReplyDeleteSandy Darity wrote: You raise a powerful and disturbing question that has been asked before by folk like Sidney Wilhelm in "Who Needs the Negro?" and Samuel Yette in "The Choice." I explored this problem myself in the early 1980s. In a recent paper, Greg Price and I looked at the race genocide dimensions of North Carolina's eugenic sterilization program that did not officially end until the early 1970s! Please see "The Economics of Race and Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968" Economics and Human Biology, July 2010.
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