Title: What are genocides? Why do they happen? - Quora
Headings: What are genocides? Why do they happen?
What are genocides? Why do they happen?
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Content: It is but a short step from regarding a group as inferior to regarding them as unworthy of the rights of other human beings. And once they victim group has been regarded as subhuman, then it is okay to do whatever you like to them. Dan Cain
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Originally Answered: Why does genocide happen? Generally by dehumanizing , and then demonizing , a cultural or racial segment of society as a whole … as Hitler did with the Jews , though by no means limited that that one example . ( The american native genocide was on an arguably greater or equal scale in some criteria , but it is not talked about or known as well as the Holocaust . And even those were by no means the only large scale genocides in history , or even modern times . ) Generally it happens as political motive , as with Hitler creating an enemy of the Jews to vent german anger and frustration at the aftereffects of ww-1 .. or ot
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Generally by dehumanizing , and then demonizing , a cultural or racial segment of society as a whole … as Hitler did with the Jews , though by no means limited that that one example . ( The american native genocide was on an arguably greater or equal scale in some criteria , but it is not talked about or known as well as the Holocaust . And even those were by no means the only large scale genocides in history , or even modern times . )