Who Was the Biggest Mass Murderer in History?

[88m3]

I love the line that it's somehow controversial to shyt on communist regimes when it was in affect a primary goal of the west to do just that for 50+ years

a tankie emerges

 

[JahFocus CS]

a tankie emerges

and a dummy quoted him

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Ghengis khan way worse than all of these guys mentioned so far

 

[88m3]

and a dummy quoted him

I enjoyed how you attributed one man to hundreds of years of atrocities. Can we get more of that? You made it through what grade again?

 

[JahFocus CS]

I enjoyed how you attributed one man to hundreds of years of atrocities. Can we get more of that? You made it through what grade again?

for one of history's most prominent cac supremacists

You're truly the scum of the earth. You're basically as bad as Napoleon

 

[88m3]

for one of history's most prominent cac supremacists

You're truly the scum of the earth. You're basically as bad as Napoleon

Trump loves the poorly educated.



Nowhere ever did I defend Columbus.

 

[duckbutta]

I would have to go with whoever you think was in charge on both sides of the American Revolutionary War...also known as "The Beginning of the Genocide of the Native Americans"...whichever you prefer

 

[Tate]

a tankie emerges

Not really

 

[88m3]

Not really

Truly

 

[Tate]

Truly

I actually have a pretty extensive list of critiques of the USSR, Maoist China, and the broader Marxist Leninist model. Most of which I've articulated here before.

For being our token enlightened liberal, nuance seems a little lost on you these days.

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

I would have to go with whoever you think was in charge on both sides of the American Revolutionary War...also known as "The Beginning of the Genocide of the Native Americans"...whichever you prefer

Its not that simple to point at a beginning..the Spanish and the British engaged in genocide as well long before there was a colonial American Govt

 

[Shogun]

Creh, read this book. Honestly I'm not finna go back and forth on this if you want to brush that under the rug as gaining "a lucrative return."

Interestingly, I have read that book. It argues that European society as a whole established the preconditions for genocidal behavior, and Columbus's discovery made it possible for that behavior to be unleashed.

It doesn't change the fact that mass colonizing/exterminating an indigenous people wasn't Columbus's intent. Its certainly a result of his actions, but not his specific intent. He died insisting he was in India.

I'm not brushing anything under the rug. In fact, I would argue that pinning the genocide solely on Columbus (which you'd have to do to place him in contention for this thread) lets European society as a whole off the hook.

By comparison, the Nazi Holocaust can be separated from German society because of the prominent role of Hitler/the Nazi party.

 

[Jimi Swagger]

How about the Vatican particularly Pope Alexander VI

 

[Propaganda]

god.

 

[duckbutta]

Its not that simple to point at a beginning..the Spanish and the British engaged in genocide as well long before there was a colonial American Govt

This is true...however I feel that this war is the "official" jumping off point of the genocide of the native americans...because the war was primarily about who is going to own this land and kill the native population in the process...in the historical context...of course