Genocides,
racial/ethnic cleansing and massacres all seem to be evil and cruel acts of
humanity or are they really? Most people you ask today with no hesitation would
agree these acts are wrong and evil. If this is the case, then does this make
us in a way evolved human species then our ancestries that were around the
times of several genocides. There were people in those societies that either
accepted, petrified or indifferent during the genocides. Ultimately, the
genocides were large scaled enough to go down in history. Again we would like
to think that if something like this were to happen in our own backyard we
would have no tolerance and put a stop to it immediately. We would like to
regard ourselves as not barbaric and cruel but that may not be the case.
As
can be read in chapters 1, 2 & 3 in the book Fires of Hatred, there have been Genocides and racial cleansings
leading all the way up to our times. The spearheads of each genocide operation had
their own specific ratiocinations like religion, race or ideology. The fact of
the matter is that we are veritably the same human species as the humans that
were existing during those times. Even the fact that mostly everyone would
agree to the same question posed earlier, shows that humans follow a certain
trend. If people believe that a certain way is how most believe things should
be then they assume that is the right way of things. People rarely ask
questions about how things are and way things become to be what they are
following certain quotes like “that’s just the way things are” or “that’s the
way it’s always been” to see how a society can be manipulated by the media,
religion, politics and any other median that produces information.
An
example of this would be how in the U.S. people were turned on the Orientals
and discriminated against Japanese and how after 9/11 people were convinced
that Muslims and anyone portrayed as a “turban wearing Arab” or Middle
Easterner was a terrorist and would have been okay with allowing their anger to
possible harm innocent civilians. The sad truth is, genocide/massacres will be inevitable
in our future. Whether it will be because of race, body, height, etc because
people are routine.
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