Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq

[Kelvin Mace]

218. The poster advocated

these people as "subhumans" which needed to be "exterminated". These are words I have heard before applied to native Americans, blacks, Jews, "Gypsies", gays, Communists, etc.

I gave the poster ample time to reflect on his choice of words and he embraced them and even accepted that he agreed with Dick Cheney and Fox News in his views. He did belatedly address his word choice, but still made clear his intent had not changed.

Then wasn't it genocide to kill the Germans?

No, since the German army was the military arm of the German nation state involved in an open and declared war with other nation states. Everybody wore uniforms, which made it a lot easier to figure out who to shoot. However, the German government made a specific decision to "exterminate" people they deemed to be "subhuman", using EXACTLY the same language as the poster. And before you tell me that ISIS did horrible things to people, you need to read your history and see what various Partisan groups did to German soldiers and collaborators.

Sometimes there are bad guys who are way worse than the US.

If someone "accidentally" kills your spouse/child/parent/sibling while "exterminating subhumans" that is a distinction without a difference. Dead is dead. I expect mindless screams for bloody vengeance from Neanderthal conservatives, I expected better from members of the "reality-based community".

(This is not a dig at you, but a depressing observation of this thread).