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Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing... by mgkimsal on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:50AM (#15498683)
> Look at every genocide of the past century; they all start with classifying a group of people as sub-human and worthy of discrimination.

Seems like those 'other' groups were generally defined by biological characteristics, not ideologies, no? I guess the 'anti-communist' movement would fall under ideology, not biology, but the majority of examples I can think of that you're alluding to have to do with biology, no?

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Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing... by pjc50 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:35AM (#15499469)
The "cultural revolution" and Cambodia's "Year Zero" were explicitly ideological.
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Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing... by heneryville on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:13AM (#15499296)
The Cambodian genocide had a definite ideological side, as well as the repression of Kulaks [1]. I'm not sure why it's not traditionally listed as a genocide since it's effects would squarely place it somewhere in the top 5.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization

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Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:59AM (#15499163)
> biological characteristics, not ideologies, no?

No. "Jewish" isn't biological, although there is some correlation, and America's red scare was soundly ideological.

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Re:Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing... by mgkimsal on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:32PM (#15501681)
"I guess the 'anti-communist' movement would fall under ideology"

I would think that's your 'red scare' unless you're talking about something else.

The "jewish" one - thinking specifically of ww2 - it definitely was more of a biological component, as "how much" you were jewish, and from what lineage, made a difference. "jewish" is both cultural and may have a racial/biological component (imu).

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