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In reply to the discussion: The South was not sufficiently punished after the war [View all]thucythucy
(8,069 posts)unless you consider the Nuremburg trials equivalent to the Holocaust.
Let's take just one example. In April 1864 hundreds of black and white prisoners were slaughtered--after they'd
surrendered--during the Fort Pillow massacre. Their bodies were found later when the north reoccupied the area--the blacks had almost all been killed by gunshot to the back of the head. Nathan Bedford Forrest was in command of the troops who committed what was widely seen as one of the worst war crimes of the era--at least one witness had him personally supervising the slaughter.
Would it have been genocide to bring him to trial? To at least charge him and force him to defend himself in open court? Rather than lionizing him as some great folk hero (who just happened to be a slave trader, and the first Grand Wizard of the KKK)?
To equate an effort to offer some measure of justice to those brutalized and even murdered by racists like Bedford to "genocide" is absurd.