Atrocities you can use in political discussions besides the Holocaust

Alduin · 2014-11-15 23:22:47

The Armenian Genocide
The Rape of Nanking
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Purge
The Cambodian Genocide
D&D 4th Edition

Salix Babylonika · 2014-11-15 23:24:31

hur hur hur hur

comparing poorly regarded editions of classic roleplaying games to genocides is just hilarious

Alduin · 2014-11-15 23:25:00

I don't actually have anything against 4th Ed, I just couldn't resist the pot-shot

Imipolex G · 2014-11-15 23:26:01

Nickelback

Alduin · 2014-11-15 23:27:04

Nickeback isn't all that bad, just really really mediocre.

Simple Plan...ugh, now THERE is a shitty Canadian band

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-11-16 00:21:34

Burning of books and burying of scholars (焚書坑儒).

Alduin · 2014-11-16 00:25:54

I already listed the Great Leap Forward tho

Klinotaxis · 2014-11-16 00:35:21

that's completely different though

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-11-16 00:46:40

There's always that rebellion that produced the Seven Kill Stele.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-11-16 00:50:37

We've got a bad habit of censoring things.

Fuck the Library of Alexandria, this is the real tragedy. We'd be building palaces on Mars if that shit didn't happen.

Alduin · 2014-11-16 00:50:51

Klinotaxis said:
that's completely different though

I know that, I just thought I had China covered when it came to the atrocity department

Klinotaxis · 2014-11-16 00:53:17

i can think of, like, three different horrible wars in china you haven't listed off the top of my head

such is china

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-11-16 00:59:12

I was just thinking that China really does have one of the most astonishingly bloody histories of, like, anywhere.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-11-16 01:01:39

So, so much suffering. We could have definitely filled a river with all that blood. Maybe more than one. I don't know how much water a river has.

Did we cover the forced famines in India by Churchill?

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-11-16 01:04:01

Well, now you have.

Hmm. How about the massacres perpetrated by the Assyrians, or Tamerlane?

Klinotaxis · 2014-11-16 01:05:41

or speaking of tamerlane, the mongolian invasions of everywhere

Alduin · 2014-11-16 01:06:57

Oh crap, we missed Great Britain, didn't we? I was going to put the Opium Wars there somewhere

Imipolex G · 2014-11-16 01:16:59

humans are bastards

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-11-16 01:18:01

It's not fair, you guys. Just because we have the biggest landmass and have the most people in our group doesn't mean you/we should come and trim the numbers a little.

Alduin · 2014-11-16 01:31:04

Man, I wonder which Western countries China has beat in terms of atrocities

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-16 03:54:08

the ones with long recorded histories and sense of nationhood

Magic Jane said:
hur hur hur hur

comparing poorly regarded editions of classic roleplaying games to genocides is just hilarious

hey it wasn't me doing a crazy comparison this time

and i don't even hate 4th edition

glennmagusharvey · 2014-11-16 03:55:02

also iirc we haven't even figured out how to make greek fire again yet

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-11-16 04:10:15

We have napalm. That's pretty damn close and you can make it in your garage.

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