The mainstream media continue to pretend that the policies of Donald Trump are not that outrageous. And the shills for the Trump campaign feign being upset by the Clinton campaign’s use of Ku Klux Klansmen and other hate groups expressing support for Trump. (Why wouldn’t such scumbags support him? Many of his promises mirror their own sentiments. It’s just that he has managed to acquire, through his support by the Grand Old Party, a veneer of respectability that the others lack and envy.)
But the fact is that the plans that he has laid out, most recently in Phoenix last night, amount to nothing more nor less than what would be one of the largest ethnic cleansing programs in the history of the world. Even if he only deports 10 million of the 11.5 million mostly Hispanic people his Deportation Force (perhaps he should “soften” the name to Guest Apprehension Police—Guest App Po for short?) would target, this would still be one of the largest episodes of ethnic cleansing in history. In numerical terms, it would far exceed most such notorious crimes, including:
There are instances where ethnic cleansing in certain areas and against certain peoples went on for decades and even centuries (Native Americans by Europeans, for instance, Africans by Europeans, Jews by Christians, and the Christians and Muslims in the Balkans and Anatolia) and probably added up to more people than even Trump plans.
- But the only short-term episodes I have found that seem to approach the numbers that the Great Trumpian Cleansing would impact are:
- The Holocaust (including Jews, Rom, Poles, Slavs, etc.) .
- The cleansing of ethnic Germans in Europe around and after the end of World War Two.
- The early 1930s Holodomor famine and cleansing of the Ukrainian kulaks by Joseph Stalin.
- The combined cleansing of and by Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims triggered by the Partition of India.
- The 1971 cleansing of Bengali Hindus (and some others) by the Pakistan military at the Bangladesh War of Liberation.
Yes, there may be others cleansing atrocities I haven’t identified that were aimed at tens of millions of people—but Trump’s plot would definitely be among the most horrific in history.
I am sure the Trump supporters will once again feign horror: “All the examples you give were horrific episodes of genocide where people were killed!”
Yes.
And, like almost every other instance in history of what started as ethnic cleansing, who can guarantee that this episode would not also be accompanied by thousands of deaths. Do American voters want that, too? What’s the rule for how many deaths in an ethnic cleansing episode make it into genocide?
It’s time to start insisting that the media call this what it is!
The Trump Plan for ETHNIC CLEANSING!