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davywavy ([personal profile] davywavy) wrote2005-10-12 10:57 am

Ethnic cleansing. Stop, think, reconsider.

One wonders if, at some point in late 1945, the Germans and Soviet Russians suddenly regretted all the pogroms and the like which resulted in their Jews leaving to the United States to build atom bombs.

Just goes to show - don't pick on people smarter than you.*

*The Ashkenazi Jews have the joint highest** average testable IQ of any distinct racial grouping on Earth.

**With the Koreans.

Re: Hmm...

[identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com 2005-10-13 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure the word I would use to describe the North Koreans is 'admire', especially when the massive starvation is pretty much as a direct result of spending all their money on ordnance...

Re: Hmm...

[identity profile] applez.livejournal.com 2005-10-13 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Point is: plenty have starved their masses to death...few have successfully translated that horrific sacrifice into a viable weapon in quite the way the Koreans have.

Re: Hmm...

[identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com 2005-10-14 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno - it worked pretty well for Stalin, and the Chinese bombs came out of the massive death & social turmoil of the Great Leap Forward in the 1950's and the Cultural revolution of the 60's. In the main, extreme left/Communist countries seem to hvae a pretty good civilian death/atom bomb ratio.

Re: Hmm...

[identity profile] applez.livejournal.com 2005-10-15 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ah ha ... so that's where all those Latin American dictators went wrong. ;-)