@Renauda said in Sparking Outrage:
I personally do not believe Starkey’s point that slavery is not genocide is in any way racist.
Genocide is a legal term to describe crimes against humanity that would ultimately lead to the physical annihilation of a specific race, ethnic group, class or adherents to a religious creed. As such it is specific actions that must be proven in a court of law to meet the criteria that define the crime of genocide.
It is not a label that can defined or levied by an executive decree, legislature, interest group or lobby. While slavery is arguably a crime against humanity on a number of criminal and moral grounds, it has yet to be brought forward as genocide before the international courts.
Starkey is perhaps tactless but not demonstrably racist.
Agreed. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So it is with anything to do with race these days.
If we cannot speak openly and sincerely, we can never get past this. That may be the end goal.
