You think Lenin was worse than Hitler 
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"I'd rather kill Kulaks than Jews" Sounds like a race-based decision to me.
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It isn't. It's literally the exact opposite. Kulaks were basically capitalists. Kulak isn't a race. Capitalist isn't a race. Wanting to kill people because of their racial heritage isn't the same as wanting to kill in order to eliminate class based exploitation.
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It's not the exact opposite. It's *point* I don't like those people. What if Jews are over-represented in the class of people who are exploitative? I mean, surely you'll admit that Kenyans are significantly better at long distance running than other races.
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It doesn't matter if Jews are over-represented as capitalists/bankers whatever. It's a poor rationale to target an ethnic demographic because some of the population are also exploitative. It's unnecessary since all that's needed to go directly after those who are exploitative.
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Why is it a poor rationale? Let's say that, for example, 50% of "target demographic" is exploitative. If "removing exploiters" is the goal of the movement, is it not completely rational to start looking at "target demographic" first?
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No, it isn't. Because 50% are innocent and on top of that, even if 50% of the target demographic were exploitative that doesn't translate into 50% of the exploitative individuals being exactly the demographic of which 50% are exploitative. Therefore more innocents are killed.
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And that's what happened. The Nazis committed genocide on the basic of racial politics alone, whereas the justification for extreme violence of the USSR was based on social status.
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