Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 2/22/2025 11:59 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:

jerryfriedman <jerry.friedman99@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:15:22 +0000, William Hyde wrote:
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jerryfriedman wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 9:31:08 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

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[extirpating bison]
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OTOH, the USA did it deliberately,
as part of scorched earth tactics.
<https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison.htm>
It was ecocide as a means for ethnical cleansing.
Hunting for fun, or food, or even leather had little to do with it.

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It seems to me that I've heard of one or two
similar examples, but I can't think of any, so
maybe not.

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Exterminating the animals on which a pastoral foe depends on has a long
history.  It was done, e.g. in Ireland in the late 1500s.  Of course,
with  trains and better guns it became easier.
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As A. L. Rowse frequently noted, events which took place in North
America were often foreshadowed in Ireland.

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Thanks, I didn't know that.  But I was thinking of
what Jan called ecocide, killing wild species.

 More than just species, an ecosystem.
Massive use by the USA of 'Agent Orange' and other defoliants in Vietnam
is another good candidate for an attempt at ecocide,
 

I think you are missing the fact that Americans at the time weren't killing off buffalo to kill off buffalo.  The point of killing off the buffalo was to exterminate or force assimilation into White Society of the native "Indians".
Agent Orange and similar defoliants are something entirely different. They weren't expected to kill off the VC and NVA by starvation or such, that was just an effort to deny them cover.  Same general effect as using a flamethrower or explosives to destroy a building.
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