Modern ethnoracial massacre magnitudes match or exceed those of chattel slavery

Evidence

Ten million enslaved Africans perished in Middle Passage, on reasonable estimates. Death en passant to a life more often than not worse than death. Starved, worked, beaten, suffocated, diseased to death. Numbers as large again prematurely killed in new world slavery. Systemically, brutally worked, beaten, saddened or maddened into death. Seven million aboriginal inhabitants of Australia wiped out by European colonization and modernization. A lynching every other day in the southern states of the US throughout the 1890s. Ten million battered into death by Leopold’s vicious regime in the Congo between 1885 and 1908, half of the population of the area castrated and delimbed and diseased in a brutality matched only by the six million Jews and nameless others gassed and shot and tortured to death by Aryan superiority in the 1940s, for which the Congolese experience served as a pre-cursive laboratory. Each death exceptional in transnational processes of violence and violation all too sadly not. One million people murdered in 1994 in Rwanda in the ethnoracial name of not belonging. In one month. More than 70 percent of the more than two million people rotting in US prisons (up from 200,000 less than 40 years ago) people of color. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 22

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1064; Colonial slavery and the Holocaust share racially evaporated death

Broader Connections

• Colonial slavery and the Holocaust share racially evaporated death #expands (0.85)
• Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices #qualifies (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1064