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Your "True Detective" Finale Open Thread

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)3/10/2014 7:53:35 am PDT

People need to understand that genocide isn’t something you should trivialize. For example, in Italy, France, Hungary, and many other places in Europe, the murders of Roma often go mostly uninvestigated, the disappearance of Roma almost always go uninvestigated. There is a huge amount of abuse and oppression of the Roma, but there isn’t genocide. There is a long, long distance between oppressing a population and committing genocide against them.

For a long time in the US, murders of black men and women were barely investigated and the white murderers were often let off by all-white juries. This, too, did not mean that we were committing genocide against African-Americans.