Genocide? This is in fact what genocide looks like:

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105. I thought as much.

I had no problem with your post otherwise.

And it was the British of that era who indeed invented the term "concentration camp"--so there's that. The British campaign against the Boers, whether intentional or not, resulted in incredible suffering for people who'd committed no crime other than being a member of the "wrong" ethnicity.

As for the Boers taking sides against the British, there too you make a good point. There was of course also a wide streak of racism in that community to begin with, but it's not like that was terribly unusual among whites in Africa, or anywhere else at that time. One might say the same is true today.

Your comment reminded me of a story about FDR. This was in 1940 or '41, when he was trying to ease the US into supporting Britain before Pearl Harbor. He was supposedly meeting with a group of Irish American community leaders who were opposed to Lend Lease and any other such measures. He reportedly burst out, in frustration, "You have to put aside your resentment of the English and see how important it is that Germany not win this war!" Or words to that effect.

Like Gandhi said, "An eye for eye makes the whole world blind." Probably not an exact quote, but pretty close.

Best wishes.