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Entry: Saying "No" to Tenured Fascists Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/saying_no_to_tenured_fascists#18050 Post contents: John, I hate to spoil the fun, but you might want to do some reading in the recent work on violence in history -- check for example Steven Pinker's latest publications. This work shows that "the bloody 20th century" actually had one of the lowest known rates of violent mortality. If the century had followed the historical norm, the number of people dying via being killed by other humans would have been well over a billion, not the low hundreds of millions that actually died. Also, there is a problem with the statistics you linked. The list of deaths caused by assorted political weirdos left out the Greens, who killed some 50 million people (A bigger total than that of the Nazis!) in Africa by banning DDT. Most troubling of all, there is evidence that at least some of the leading Greens at the time knew this "side-effect" would ensue from the ban. Sent at: 2008 07 20