Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.