From: "Marcus Strom" <MSTROM-AT-nswtf.org.au>
Date:          Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:32:35 GMT+10
Subject:       Rahul, Political murder and Holocaust


Just wanted to make one comment on the below.

I don't think we can carelessly say: "There is a holocaust going on 
every year." The Holocaust was a particular policy of genocide. I do 
not think that the deaths from hunger, poverty et cetera can be 
compared.

Although I do agree with the thrust of your point. I just wanted to 
make a clarification

> Date:          Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:54:27 -0600
> From:          rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)

> Siddharth:
> 
> >If you are
> >truly interested in political murder, I would seriously urge you to
> >take a look at some UN statistics which show that 20-25 million
> >human beings die each year due to hunger, disease, poverty, wars and other
> >preventable causes. Would you consider this to be political murder?
> >The more one follows the discussions on this list, the more and more
> >the bankruptcy of the western left intellectuals reveals itself. Adios.
> 
> This is a good point, one that I try to make as often as I can (I guess I
> haven't on the list, though). There is a holocaust going on every year.
> This is a problem that's not going to be solved by Sally Struthers. Of
> course, this has absolutely nothing to do with questions about whether
> authoritarian regimes should murder people who disagree with the official
> line. Let's pay some attention to it as a problem in itself, not use it to
> try to make debating points.


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