Partial lists with redundancies
TARGETS
(Not comprehensive.)
Jews in Europe, North America and elsewhere throughout history;
Differently pigmented minorities throughout the world;
Aborigines in Australia;
Maori in New Zealand;
Armenians in Turkey;
Slaves in far lands and their own countries;
Children oppressed, abused and murdered through history;
Women oppressed, abused and murdered though history;
Tutsi majority slaughtered by Hutu minority in Rwanda;
Countless Indigenous peoples of North America, South America and Pacific Islands;
Irish Catholics in Ireland, Protestants in Ireland, the Irish Diaspora;
Southeast-Asian men, women, and children;
African-Americans in the USA;
Latinx in the USA;
Asians in the USA;
Irish in the USA;
Chinese railroad workers in the USA;
Immigrants of many other types in the USA;
Japanese-Americans in the USA during World War II;
Modern day Asian-Americans in the USA;
People on the “wrong side of the tracks”;
Exploited workers;
Little People, people with Giganticism, polydactyly, third nipples, albinism, piebald pigmentation, and many others outside the genetic “norm”; Christians, Jews, Hindi, Muslims, Bahai, heretics of every stripe, Pagans, Witches, too many faiths to enumerate.
My apologies to the multitudes not reflected on this list.
MEANS
(Not comprehensive.)
Slavery;
Wage slavery;
outright murder and/or rape;
Swords, crossbows, spears, swords, rifles, machine guns, Gatling guns;
Burning of villages, gas ovens, applications of lit cigarettes and cigars, napalm bombs, flamethrowers, burning at the stake, nuclear bombs;
Guillotines, axes, iron maidens, choke pears, hot irons, cat o’nine tails, bullwhips, thumb screws, dunking, waterboarding, multiple lacerations, drawing and quartering, crushing, hanging, cattle prods, electic chairs, electro-shock, lethal injection, brainwashing;
Outright genocide through multitudes of means, germ warfare, chemical warfare, bombing, firebombing, nuclear bombs;
Cultural genocide through distorted, punitive educational systems;
The Crusades, Inquisitions, Holocaust, mass human sacrifices by Aztecs and others;
Religious laws, mores, norms, patriarchy, schools;
Deadly intolerance of differences of race, color, religion, creed, gender expression;
Eugenics, sterilization, medical “experiments”;
Deceptive treaties, empty promises, campaigns of lies;
Fear mongering, nationalism, fascism, supremacism, Manifest Destiny, Divine Rights of Kings, pontifs and presidents, communism amounting to totalitarianism, capitalism amounting to plutocracy, monarchies;
Puritanism, exploitive pornography and prostitution, snuff films;
Lynch mobs, police, prison system, Jim Crow, voter disenfranchisement;
Egomanically exaggerated exponential hubris;
as many unholy means that human ingenuity can devise.
If it can be thought of, it has been done.
SUGGESTED REMEDY:
(Needs development.)
Apply our creativity toward non-exploitive universal love of all varieties extended to everyone and everything animate and inanimate throughout creation.
Can we do it? Is it worth a try?
~ Wry Welwood
2nd of September 2021