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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
Genocide is genocide. What the reason is doesn't really matter. Holocaust was reckless colonialism as well when you boil it down to the core. Germans took over Poland and killed everyone Jewish there (and everywhere else where they took over). Whatever you see it, the differences are marginal. Killing 10 Million people in Congo is no different and there can't possibly be any justification for it. Just the fact that you argue the way you argue shows how twisted our minds think (and I said it myself - I don't get any emotions thinking about it either...but that is WRONG!)....
Anyhow - just my opinions...
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I disagree. However abhorrent the outcome is, I think the systematic, calculated and unerringly efficient murder of Jews simply for being Jewish is morally "worse" than the deaths of indigenous people in Colonialism. Colonists didn't simply go there to kill those people, it was mainly for economic gain in various fashions. For colonists, the deaths of natives was merely a by-product, not the goal of what they were doing. I'm in no way excusing their actions, I think it's terrible, but I think the distinction between the two must be noted.