Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Re: A case for “reasonable discrimination” Mr Rosario (5 March) reminds us about "Nazism". Yes, they behaved cruelly. By 1945 they were out of power. But, why do we always forget other parts of the world? Did the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, in more recent times, not suffer equally? Do not the experiments with Syphilis in the USA, After World War 2, not count as equally heinous crimes? Does the liquidation of the natives in Tasmania not count as genocide? The three examples given here are manifestations of the same phenomenon. Competing interests: No competing interests 06 March 2014 JK Anand Retired doctor Free spirit Peterborough
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Re: A case for “reasonable discrimination”
Mr Rosario (5 March) reminds us about "Nazism". Yes, they behaved cruelly. By 1945 they were out of power.
But, why do we always forget other parts of the world?
Did the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, in more recent times, not suffer equally?
Do not the experiments with Syphilis in the USA, After World War 2, not count as equally heinous crimes?
Does the liquidation of the natives in Tasmania not count as genocide?
The three examples given here are manifestations of the same phenomenon.
Competing interests: No competing interests