The East India Company, the original corporate raiders

Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by OzzyB on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:18PM (#15314009)

> Very few people in the West, for example, even know about the ethnic cleansing of the Greeks under the Ottoman Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide)

Fewer still know about the "Turkish Genocide" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_genocide) but that's more to do with cherry-picking "historians" such as yourself.

Of course that Wikipedia page redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ottoman_Muslims which kinda proves the point that for some reason we can't use the term "Turkish Genocide" and must use quotes and softer language like "Persecution".

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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by apsec112 on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:23PM (#15314044)

"cherry-picking "historians" such as yourself."

I've never claimed to be a historian, and it's impossible to not leave lots of things out in a Hacker News comment, especially if the scope is as broad as "all historical atrocities". I didn't write these Wikipedia pages, I'm just linking to them out of convenience since I can't link to copyrighted history books.

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Re:The East India Company, the original corporate raiders by trentmb on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:28PM (#15314080)

> I've never claimed to be a historian

That's why they put it in quotes.

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