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In Reply to: So, Schindler's List....high budget guilt trip? posted by tinear on February 6, 2005 at 13:14:23:

Grits:
Stalin killed more Jews in the pogroms and purges than Hitler. I've seen very little about that in the press or in art. Some deaths may have been incidental to Stalin's destruction of the intelegentsia, but I doubt it. Stalin's death toll, by starvation, penury or direct execution was in excess of 20 million. Whether his direct exterminations of Jews was equal to Hitler's is a subject of some debate, but the death toll is likely higher.
Tinear:
However, the tribal idiocy in Rwanda is nothing to the Malaria deaths created in Africa by the environmentalist movement. Still rising like a meteor, the total of deaths directly attributable to the restriction of DDT in the third world is (as of a few minutes ago) 88,097,989. But then, even if Rachael Carson's faulty analysis of the damage to eagle eggs caused by DDT were true (very, very doubtful and not supported by the data) I would sacrifice the eagles to save that many lives. But, of course, eagles are important to the Upper East Side cocktail set. Africans and Asians do not seem to be. I must say however, that there has been a softening of heart regarding DDT after the Tsunami. I was overjoyed to see it.
To both:
Mao makes Stalin and Hitler look like amateurs. But few of his victims are Jews or black. Still, with only mild risability, one might say that the Politically Correct Greens have committed the greatest genocide of the modern world. But, as the cry always goes, "We didn't mean it! It's not our fault!" You may provide the appropriate whine yourselves.

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Topic - Hotel Rwanda: Low budget international guilt trip - mr grits 08:03:54 02/06/05 (8)

So, Schindler's List....high budget guilt trip? - tinear 13:14:23 02/06/05 (6)

Two politically incorrect facts - Auricle 09:18:10 02/07/05 (0)

I thought SL was truly a very important film that should be seen . . . - mr grits 16:02:07 02/06/05 (4)

My point is that you seem to have zero caring for - tinear 05:04:56 02/07/05 (3)

Your conclusions are incorrect . . . - mr grits 08:10:45 02/07/05 (2)

At any rate, everything I've read about the film says it goes - tinear 18:00:44 02/07/05 (1)

There's no substitute for seeing it. Nolte's monologue is way over the top . . . I feel guilty thinking about it. - mr grits 18:53:13 02/07/05 (0)

Doubtless true. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:53:58 02/06/05 (0)

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Two politically incorrect facts - Auricle 09:18:10 02/07/05 (0)

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