Are All Genocides Equal?

Before there was Auschwitz there was Bloemfontein. Before there was Dachau there was Norvalspont. Before there was Treblinka there was Elmira NY which was so bad it was dubbed “Hellmira” by its occupants. Have you ever asked yourself why you have heard of Majdanek, Bergen-Belsen, and Sobibor but never of Pt. Lookout Maryland, Johnson Island, or Camp Douglas?

Why do you know about the Jewish suffering and not the Boer suffering during the Boer war when the British built Concentration camps for the Boer women and children in order to inflict mental suffering upon the Boer men fighting against the British?

When I looked over the list of those who died at the British concentration camp by Potchefstroom, South Africa, I saw names like Vander Wal, de Vries, van Wyk, etc. I thought, “I know these people!” (not really, but these are last names in my life experience). Many of the Dutch Reformed in Iowa began voting Democratic at the time of the Great Boer War because Republican President Wm. McKinley supported Great Britain in that war. Much of Europe (including the Irish!) supported the Boers.

Why do you know about Jewish suffering and not Confederate suffering at the hands of Concentration camps dotted all across the Yankee North?

And we haven’t even begun to consider all the names of the camps that formed the Gulag Archipelago in Russia, nor have we mentioned the great slaughter of the Armenians by the Turks that started in 1915 and lasted two years.

Why do we know only about the German camps and only about Jewish suffering? What have we been inundated with films, books, documentaries, museums about Jewish maltreatment but barely a word about Ukrainian Christian maltreatment or Armenian Christian maltreatment, or the maltreatment of the Boers?

This question, by all rights, ought to make one really pause to think. Could there be a reason that we know all about one and very little about the others?

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

4 thoughts on “Are All Genocides Equal?”

  1. You don’t hear anything about Eisenhower’s open air concentration camps full of German POW’s who he reclassified as Disarmed Enemy Persons so as not to have abide by the Geneva Convention or be subject to International Red Cross inspections or relief either!

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  2. Speaking as the great, great grandson of an infantrymen of the 1st Maryland Infantry (CSA) who spent 19 months in the hellish Point Lookout prison, only to be released and ran out of his home state of Maryland after the war, I would suggest that perhaps we as a nation should take a close look at those people you referred to who have been kicked out of 109 nations (and counting), due to their corrosive effects on their host gentile nation. This tiny minority (2-3%) of the US population has enormous power in Hollywood, media, academia, finance, and government, and we can all see the direction those entities lead. The Apostle Paul warned us of them in his letter to Titus, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” Having said all that, if we were what we should have been, then they could not have subverted our house. Shame on us.

    I have really appreciated your recent articles pertaining to history. I have found that my own view of our history and Biblical nationhood has changed radically as I’ve come to a more reformed understanding of scripture. Funny how that happens, isn’t it? We should all read less of Darby and C. Schofield and more of Calvin and Dabney.

    Keep fighting the good fight, never give up, never quit, fight to the end.

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