I confess that I made this post more to bring attention to the Boer Genocide in particular. But let me explain my thoughts on the issue.
We all know about the Holocaust. Most people have a vague idea as to what the Armenian Genocide was. Many know about what Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia. History majors like me know of the several genocides (or rather, the one really long attempted genocide) of the Irish by the English, who in 1707 conquered Scotland and used their subsequently increased power to to it more. I've watched the holocaust documentaries. Hell, I've been to Dachau. In the post-war years, the West has made racism such a massive anathema that you can end one's career by accusing them of it, all in the name of making sure another Holocaust never happens. I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights out the @$$ (self-censoring for Jestor) to prevent such things from happening here. We all swear, had we been there, we would have spoke out, would have at least tried to intervene, even if it meant death, and didn't change anything. Well here's your modern-day Holocaust, and scarce few people are doing anything. I'm not necessarily asking for military intervention. I myself, as I said, have volunteered to fight should civil war break out, but I'm not even asking that of anyone. I'm just asking that you make a fuss over it, put up flyers. I am sure many of you have done as much over other causes, of far less severity and importance. I know I have.
We know we live in a screwed up world when a teenager with a criminal history gets shot by a respectable man in self-defense, and it becomes national news as a racism scandal, but then when an actual race-based mass murder (AKA genocide) is happening in South Africa, nobody says anything.
