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I speak for myself, Elijah Cohen and I am a Jew whose grandparents survived the Holocaust. Is there a problem? Why are you bringing my religion into this?



Because apparently the use of the word ‘genocide’ cannot be appropriated by non Jewish people.

Bengal famine that was a man made famine by British wiped out 1/3 of the population of one state. That’s 10 million people. And there were many more. We were shipping cotton to England instead of growing grain for our people. Indians understand genocide.

[..] "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits." -Winston Churchill[..]

https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide (Warning: disturbing images)


The British were scrupulously color-blind in their callousness and let 1/3 of white Irish starve to death in 1847, or white Boer during the Boer War.




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