[lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust

[Mike Ballard]

It is comments like these that make me very, very
nervous about your
position. If you said: this is another way of
attempting to exterminate 
a
people, but it is not genocide, I would accept your
point. We'd be 
talking
about words. But that isn't what you are saying. You
seem to imply that 
if
you systematically removed children and indoctrinated
them to the 
effect
that they were not Aboriginal, then that's not an
attempt to 
exterminate
Aboriginal people. It's as if, in your view, a person
could remain
Aboriginal without having any awareness of the fact;
or equally 
disturbing,
as if the loss of linkage to Aboriginal tradition and
society were 
small
potatoes.  Maybe I haven't understood what you are
saying, so sorry if 
any
of this sounds a little loopy.

Thiago
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My take on what Grant was saying was that act of
genocide should be reserved for the systematic,
physical extermination of a people.  Chattel slavery
would usually be considered genocide otherwise under
the definition you're giving above.  It's not a
question of Grant wishing to minimize the serious
damage done to the Aboriginal people.

Best,
Mike B)  

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