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There's also the part where no one gave a shit about the Jews until it was politically convenient. Anti-Semitism was only a popular rallying cry when it became a means of crucifying the defeated enemy. The US turned away of cruise ship filled with refugee Jews in New York harbor. A lot of...

There's this video I once saw, of a Jewish woman who was released from the work camps to return to Warsaw, being chased by children in the street who were throwing stones at her. Somehow I doubt that an axis sympathizer Poland would have resulted in fewer deaths, given the Polish sentiments...

There are plenty of people in the history of western Europe who were the product of cousin marriages, though perhaps not first-cousins. That's a lot more rare. On a side note, the wikipedia article is about a half-step away from being a full-on anti-racist rant.

Generic American mutt. Bits of this and that from all across northern Europe.

Whenever people who had writing encountered tribal groups those groups regularly engaged in war. However, they were usually about as bad at it as the local gang of kids that hang out on the corner. The more hunter-gatherer the worse they were. There is footage of a 'war' in the highlands of...

Kurds, Yazidis are the main internal groups. You also have their neighbors, migrant labor pools like Indonesians and Pakistanis, Africans due to the classic Arab racial hierarchy, and (in some places) Caucasians as well. I wanted to work in Mosul, but a friend of mine said the only way I could...

Myanmar, Cambodia, Iraq, with a sprinkling of a few more.

I've lived in some pretty racist countries, and yeah, they never mention it.

He was a recognized terrorist by most developed countries, till it was more expedient to call him a hero. Not an area of history I know a whole lot about. What I have heard though is that the actual trigger for the Civil War was the election of Lincoln, because the southern states knew that he...

If you have a strong stomach, look up "necklacing". It was popularized by Mandela's second wife Winnie Mandela and basically bread and butter for their activities. You can probably also look at the kinds and methods of crimes being performed today in South Africa and make the assumption that...

It's things like this that essentially undermine his argument. Because, if you look at history, there would be no "states" to speak of then. If you looked at Athens or Persia you would see a vast plurality of violence, as minor groups enforced their will beyond the ability or care of the ruler...