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Largest genocide in the history of the world.

Even so, that’s not factual.  The murder here was nowhere near the GLF or even the Holocaust.

The precise numbers are a bit difficult to come by for obvious reasons, but to say it was “nowhere near” is simply unlikely to be accurate. David Cesarani in Holocaust: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (Routledge, 2004) for one has argued that the number of deaths in the genocide of the Native American peoples exceeded that of the Holocaust.

this isn’t North America, but I remembered reading something for class about a year ago regarding the death toll of the Spanish & Portuguese conquest that just about made my eyes fall out of their head, the number was so huge; Wikipedia says, giving as its source an article published in a French journal in 2007 (bold mine):

Using an estimate of approximately 50 million people in 1492 (including 25 million in the Aztec Empire and 12 million in the Inca Empire), the lowest estimates give a death toll due from disease of an astonishing 80% by the end of the 16th century (8 million people in 1650). Latin America would only recover its 15th century population early in the 20th century.

sadly, the nazis do not have the historical market cornered on large-scale genocides, and i think it’s important to acknowledge what happened to the people of the Americas when the Europeans came as just that.