Atrocities that will be remembered in 100 years similar to the Holocaust/Rwanda?

Great Leap forward/Cultural Revolution

Yes, Leto.

It's been 100 years since the mid-90s?

It hasn't been 100 years since the Holocaust, either, asshole-- but maybe you could put your instinct for pedantry aside for a second to actually realize you're the one that hasn't read for context.

The live action version of The Lion King.

The Trump 'Presidency'

Yes, kids locked in cages does sound like something that would make it into the history books. Although oddly the history of 'human zoos' is generally omitted. Happened all around Europe and the Americas.

Father and daughter seeking refuge in the United States.

Trump killing 50,000+ Americans through negligence and incompetence.

The fact that Chrissy Metz has a career. Don't worry, though. Her snack purse lives on as an exhibition piece in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum in Branson.

[quote] Although oddly the history of 'human zoos' is generally omitted.

We bought a human zoo!

The Holocaust will barely be remembered. They don't even cover it in most schools these days.

These things happen.

Bullshit. And it's everywhere in the media and Hollywood.

Really, R12?

The insane ideology of people like R8 taking over our higher educational institutions and most of our media (equating the U.S. government's refusal to help foreign people break into the country to Hitler's invasions and genocides in Eastern Europe).

The 2016 election.

Super-sized fries, Rose.

R12 it’s shoved down our throats 24/7. It will eclipse anything Dump has done. #neverforget

Most DLers would agree

You would recognize insanity, R16, having pulled from your ass that trumpian interpretation of my mere nine words and a photo @ R 8.

Or should I call you Natasha? Ignored Natasha.

there arent going to be any people around in 100 years to remember anything. Infectious disease is just the tip of the iceberg on what the world faces down the road. Global warming will do us in sometime after 2050 in my opinion based on reading various scientific estimates/reports.

It's neither true that the Holocaust isn't taught in schools nor that it's "shoved down our throats" constantly by Hollywood. It's standard curriculum and-- yes the videos and photographic evidence are shown.

People don't even remember Rwanda now.

R16

[quote] The insane ideology of people like [R8] taking over our higher educational institutions and most of our media (equating the U.S. government's refusal to help foreign people break into the country to Hitler's invasions and genocides in Eastern Europe).

Let's just take a look at what side you and the Daily Mail readership has historically been on and draw our inferences from there.

The acts of treason committed by the Republican party from 2016-2021. Its unblinking collusion with Vladimir Putin and the Russian oligarchy and willing participation in the efforts to undermine and destroy America's leadership role, in essence rewriting history: the Soviet Union was not vanquished in the Cold War, the United States was.

"Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

Trumputin and his Trumptards.

There are lots of mass killings in the 20th century. The only one that really makes a dent in people's consciousness is the Holocaust. I do think that what's happened in the US under Trump will be taught 100 years from now. Along with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, what's happening now will change the balance of power in the world.

The millions who perished under Stalin are mainly forgotten outside of Russia. In 1938 alone 1,500 were shot in prisons every day. Thousands of others were perishing in the Gulag at the same time.

When Drew Carey took over The Price is Right

R4 Well, use a thread title that makes fucking sense!!! Why not use an actual genocide that happened about 100 years ago like the Armenian genocide? Oh, that's right, most people don't remember it.

R24 is correct, unfortunately MOST people don't remember the Rwandan genocide. No one's mentioned the Bosnian genocide yet (hello Srebrenica??).

E32 Everyone else seemed to get it. Were you spanked as a child?

The Armenian Genocid is not a rare topic in Europe.

The Holocaust will become a Jewish religious event rivaling Passover.

Mariah Carey's film "Glitter."

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

Fyre festival.

Viral hissy fits.

I hope the American Indian 'relocation' effort will be remembered for the atrocity it was.

The Shoah stands out for three reasons:

[bold]1. It was the only mass killing that was so methodically planned and organized in a way that ensured maximum efficiency. [/bold]It was as if the Germans were running a well designed meat processing plant. All the inmates were numbered, recorded, accounted for, there were productivity goals, "stock" was periodically moved from Point A to Point B in order to increase efficiency, reviews, long-range planning. No other genocide was even remotely as corporate.

[bold]2. It was perpetrated by an allegedly "civilized" white European nation against other Europeans. [/bold]All other modern genocides happened in places where "the natives" are not expected to be "civilized" (Rwanda, Cambodia) or where the victims were not "civilized" (Native American genocide.)

[bold]The sole purpose was genocide, not the settling of old scores [/bold] Other genocides were the result of former rivalries or two rival groups from the same nation both of whom had some degree of power or a a colonial power attempting to conquer a new land. The Jews, who made up just 1% of Germany's prewar population were killed more or less for sport--they constituted no threat to Germany

R41 Many comparisons to the American Indian slaughter during the settling of America.

Not at all R42

The Rob Lowe-Snow White Oscar opening number

R41 is from the One Genocide is Much Like Another School of Stupidity and Ignorant Parity. He is exactly why the Shoah should be a compulsory school subject.

^^^ R42, not R41 ^^^

So many.

So many.

Joan Fontaine.

Bill Barr being AG

At the rate we're going, I vote none. Few will remember Rwanda outside of East Africa. How often does the decimation of Cambodia come up now, and aside from a certain orphan, how many remember what the Janjaweed did in Darfur?

I'd posit that the absolute annihilation of American-Indians is a worse atrocity than the Holocaust. From 1492 to the present day it's been nothing but the steady degradation of native bodies and culture. Dead Indians at the hands of European colonialism; dead Indians at the behest of a growing US government (the number of treaties we've broken is astounding); dead Indians in 2020, disproportionately effected by a lack of access to wealth & health.

At least Hitler had the audacity to say that their goal was total destruction as opposed to killing you softly, witnessed in R27.

Then again, this isn't the Olympics of suffering. Every genocide is different, as it's merely a tool for some larger motive. I did have a Holocaust-denier history teacher in high school. That was a fun year. Way back in 20-fucking-03.

Everything President Museveni and his wife have done. A body count of at least 10 million.

By the way, none of this is every really "taught" in school, pedagogically at least, unless you're lucky enough to have a teacher willing to devote their curriculum to the subject.

In essense, in the USA, you're taught: "#1 People were fighting. We don't tell you why, they just were; #2. The People fighting hurt other people not involved. We don't tell you why, they just were. #3. We came in and stopped this so aren't we great?"

Bea Arthur leaving the Golden Girls .

Madonna

The Holocaust is already remembered CONSTANTLY. It will never be forgotten.

R56 No, the Holocaust is not remembered constantly. Do you really think the likes of Adolf Eichmann are taught in the curriculum? No one is taught when and how the Nazis went from ghettoization to destruction. I'm assuming you're from the USA because that stuff simply isn't taught. It's a lesson meant to be forgotten, as it can and has and will happened here.

Some folks upthread that seem to bemoan that a genocide happened, and woe behold that a reminder should be constantly reinforced in education.

Fascists are abounding, watch out y'all.

[quote] 1. It was the only mass killing that was so methodically planned and organized in a way that ensured maximum efficiency.

I think you will find this is the goal of any mass killing-- whether it's purposefully introducing small pox into a population or shooting them point blank in a prison camp. That the germans had the technological means at the time doesn't lessen the intent or character of any other genocide. Their eugenics program was modeled after ours and the human experimentation we were performing on blacks and the mentally retarded.

[quote] 2. It was perpetrated by an allegedly "civilized" white European nation against other Europeans. All other modern genocides happened in places where "the natives" are not expected to be "civilized" (Rwanda, Cambodia) or where the victims were not "civilized" (Native American genocide.)

A strong feature of the Nazi propaganda was that Jews were uncivilized vermin. The gypsies as well. What are you talking about?

[quote]The sole purpose was genocide, not the settling of old scores.

The extermination of the Jews was the ultimate exercise in "settling old scores" since at least medieval times....

None of your points hold up to scrutiny or lessen the severity, intent and success of other genocides. The sustained genocide of 12 million Native Americans was equally methodic and prejudicial-- not to mention the "sport" of chattel slavery, human zoos, eugenics, labor camps, and lasting ghettoization and state sponsored murder of Africans/African descended that continues to this day.

[quote] I'm assuming you're from the USA because that stuff simply isn't taught. It's a lesson meant to be forgotten, as it can and has and will happened here.

Where are you from? The Holocaust is standard curriculum here in the U.S. in schools and it's actually our own genocidal legacy that is rewritten and distorted

R57 I’m from South Africa and I clearly remember being taught every gruesome detail in High School History class. I now reside in the US and every major city I visit has a memorial. So yeah, I have been made aware of it and constantly am. It’s good too. I don’t want it to happen ever again. So stop peddling crap that no one knows about it. BULLSHIT.

R59 I'm from the Deep South. Pearl Harbor would get more of a lesson from the teacher that the Shoah ever would. This would be around 2000-2004. The standard of curriculum is inconsistent and practically inconsequential as well, aluding to OP's point: no one cares about history and we're doomed to repeat it.

[bold] The One With The Native American Genocide Troll

R61 Well you received a sub par education living in the Deep South to begin with, so. Not the greatest regional circumstances to make generalizations off of.

R63 Normally, in my more insular time after I lived in NYC, I'd agree with that sentiment -- but you'd be surprised how much the rest of the country is just as fucked up as Louisiana is.

Furthermore, if you're going to at least pretend that caring about genocide is worthwhile, wouldn't you be worried that a whole swathe of your country is being taught either poorly, falsely, or none at all?

The American health care system. Genocide by any standard.

This

R64 Climb down off that cross, Mary. We need the wood!

Depends, I think R67: shouldn't rather save the crucifixions for the slaves first and the Jews? It couldn't possibly happen to [i] moi [/i]

I think in 100 years, the Republican party becoming anti free-trade and Pro-Russia will be seen as much of a shift as when the Democratic party lost the south in the 60s.