Top Ten Outrages of the Past Half Millenium

[GePap]

We are talking history, not tragedy. BIG difference.

Remeber that one death's a tragedy, a million a statistic-well, we are here arguing the numbers, with some valued added personal opinions, but what the hey.

Oh- Half millennium- if you make it back to 1003 then the list changes.

[Drake Tungsten]

1. French Revolution

All others pale in comparison.

[Berzerker]

Plenty of people have mentioned the rest of the Americas-in fact, my number 1 was the annahilation of the NA, which means all native Americans (unless that means only N American natives-but then that is your issue, not mine ).

Geez, take an anti-paranoia pill or put down the bong. My question was obviously for those people who mentioned
N(orth) American Indians and ignored the rest of the hemisphere.

[LordVipper]

french revolution...well they killed quite a few people...

[Drake Tungsten]

french revolution...well they killed quite a few people...

The posionous ideologies that grew out of the French Revolution were the bigger problem. Nationalism, communism, facism, etc...

[LordVipper]

perhaps we should make a top ten outrages ever thread

[LordVipper]

opinions opinions

[Sarxis]

Originally posted by Whoha
moo3
civ3
duke nukem forever not being released ever
tribes 2 with the speed capped stuff in base

MoO3 I'll give you, but Civ3 is great now with the latest xpack.

Tribes2 base still rocks! You can KEEP Classuck!!

[LordVipper]

Lol if this thread doesnt evolve into a flame war by the time i finish working i will start one over master of orion 3 (loved it)

[Odin]

Here's my list:

1. The raping and pillaging of our planet, which is the current biggest threat to our survival.
2. The Holocaust
3. Slavery
4. Racism and genocide, especially against blacks, native americans, and jews.
5. Stalinist Socialism
6. Western Imperialism
7. Pillaging of the 3rd world
8. Corporatism
9. Hyper-consumerism and materialism
10. Social Darwinism

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Top Ten Outrages of the Past Half Millenium

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
What do you think are the top ten outrages/ depravities/ atrocities of the past 500 years? My list would be:

Holocaust
Stalin's Reign of Terror
Mao's "Cultural Revolution"
American Slavery (if you include the entire issue of slavery in the entire western hemisphere yopu could move this up to #2)
Japan's Imperial Expansion
Spanish Imperial Expansion
British Imperial Expansion
American War's against the Native Americans
French Imperial Expansion
Russian Imperial Expansion

Nothing can be compared to the brutality and atrocities of IJA/IJN.

[Drake Tungsten]

Nothing can be compared to the brutality and atrocities of IJA/IJN.

[Nubclear]

[Timexwatch]

If we're talking specifics of British imperialism, than the Sepoy and Boer Wars would be pretty high up.

I'm suprised that Imram, et al. hasn't mentioned the partitioning of India and Pakistan as one of the great outrages of at least the past century.

And to throw some fuel on the Allende/Chile debate, people harp on the fact that Allende was elected, which was true, but they forget that he was elected with by a plurality of about ~35% and 35,000 votes, give or take. Not that was any excuse for what happened, by it needs to be put in perspective. I do see a lot of people trying to paint Allende as having been elected with a groundswell of popular support...

[Az]

Originally posted by Whaleboy


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