Top Ten Outrages of the Past Half Millenium

[Q Classic]

it's a vast smear all across north georgia. that's what i don't like about it, everything's so.... spread out. the skyscrapers are naked and lonely, being so far apart from each other. the superhighways are clogged like the arteries of a 600-lbs man. outside of that, it's great.

[Arrian]

/me wonders how long it will take for this to dissolve into a communism vs. capitalism spamfest

[Kuciwalker]

[JCG]

Allende's problem were his political allies, that's all I'm going to say. But still, even taking that into consideration, Pinochet was still worse.

Now for the list, in no particular order...


1-Nazism and the Holocaust, WWII
2-(Violent) Revolutionary Communism
3-Racism & Xenophobia
4-The continuing ruin & exploitation of the Third World
5-Slavery
6-Religious persecution & Extremism
7-The Military use of Nuclear Technology
8-Man's Damage to the Environment
9-Mass Media's difusion of Porn & Violence (pure crap)
10-The Near Extermination of many ancient cultures (native americans, for example).

[Verto]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
the other side of the atrocity is that they missed scarlett o'hara and that brett whatever, too. i'm so sick of that goddamned story.

5. would have to be gone with the wind.

RHETT!!

Gone With the Wind is a classic.

[Kuciwalker]

Terry Goodkind
Star Wars Episode 1 & 2

[Imran Siddiqui]

everything's so.... spread out.

Great thing . Makes it an awesome city!

the superhighways are clogged like the arteries of a 600-lbs man.

Only if you take them at bad times. And you can always avoid the traffic by taking side streets.

[monkspider]

1. genocide of north american tribes
2. holocaust
3. american imperialism post-WWII
4. Japanese imperialism
5. Spanish Imperialism
6. British Imperialism
7. Stalin
8. Hiroshima/Nagasaki

[GePap]

500 years? That means going back to 1503...

1. Annahilation of the Native Americans
2. The Transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas
3. Taipeng Rebellion
4. The religious wars from 1520-1648
5. World War 2
6. The Holocaust
7. Stalin's reign of the USSR
8. Mao's reign in China
9. WW1
10. The Khmer Rouge

Of course, this is heavily influenced by modern history, so who knows what great evil from the hisotry of Western, Central or Southern Asia we are missing- though Tamarlane's reign just missed the date.

[Evil Knevil]

1/ Probably the Holocaust
2/ China since the Taipeng rebellion (on and on and on!)
3/ New World intentional and unintentional conquest.
4/ The 'communist' revolution in Russia.
5/ Russia's eastern expansion. Unknown millions were wiped out, usually more brutally than in NA.
6/ Armenia
7/ Cambodia
8/ Rwanda
9/ The 1949 division of India and Pakistan. So much wasted potential.
10/ Trans-Atlantic slavery.

11...? Hmm... probably 'Vietnam', I mean the whole affair from the French conquest to the American withdrawal.

I wonder if since most of these happened in the 20th C, if the previous 400 years were much less bloodthirsty? Nothing from those times really stands out.

[GePap]

Well, about 90% of all peoples of the America's died within 100 years of coming into contact with Europeans- depending on how many Native Americans there were, we are talking from a bit some number between 5 and 10 million and a number between 25 and 50 million (trying to figure out populations that were annahilated so thouroughly is hard.

As Bloody as the 20th century was, the pop. still went from about 1.8 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000. Which means that all that bloodletting in the 20th century made but a slight and non-permanent dent in the human population.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by monkspider
1. genocide of north american tribes
2. holocaust
3. american imperialism post-WWII
4. Japanese imperialism
5. Spanish Imperialism
6. British Imperialism
7. Stalin
8. Hiroshima/Nagasaki

How in God's Name did "American Imperialism post-WW2" (what with all our recently aquired colonies in the last 60 years) beat out:

Japanese Imperialism: ( Rape of Nanking, "Comfort Women", Bataan Death March, general *******ness...wee!)

Spanish Imperialism: Complete destroyed two devolped civilizations(although I'd say the bloodthirsty Aztecs weren't much better), Depopulated, completely, the Caribbean of Natives, Killed millions and millions of Natives int eh Western Hemisphere, Phillippines.

British Imperialism: What there Hell is this doing in the Top ten? It beat out the Rwanda Genocide, disintigration of Yugoslavia, Oppression of Eastern Europe, the Khmer Rouge, The 30 yrs War, Vlad the Impaler, Mao, the institute of Chattel slavery in the Americas, and Armenian Genocide? Classy.

Stalin: Yeah, he was responsible with way less death and oppression than "Post WW2 Imperialism".

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Without getting into the MOrality, there's no way this should beat out "Post WW2 Imperialism" (which should be somewhere around30 on outrages). Hell, it shouldn't beat out Dresden or Tokyo.

I'd almost suspect you're just being a kneejeck America hater. You're allowing the (relatively) minor outrages of postWW2 American Foriegn Policy beat out a sh*tload worse outrages.

[monkspider]

Who said it was ranked in order of preference, dip****?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Who said it was ranked in order of preference, dip****?

Because you PUT NUMBERS ON IT!

I mean, really. If you number a list, that is basically implies a ranking unless you say it isn't.

[monkspider]

No, it implies I'm creating a list.