Topic on Talk:List of atrocities committed by the United States of America
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Then, instead of the main headings being types of atrocities, instead the headings can be world regions, such as continents, and subheadings can narrow it down to countries, regions, and specific events and people groups. | Then, instead of the main headings being types of atrocities, instead the headings can be world regions, such as continents, and subheadings can narrow it down to countries, regions, and specific events and people groups. | ||
This way, I think the full breadth of atrocities that have been done to a certain region or group can be seen in their historical context, and the continuity of the US impact on a region or people can be seen. I think separating each section by "atrocity type" creates a broken continuity that removes the atrocity from their context, reducing them to mere statistics that do not explain the issue dialectically. It also causes the editor/writer to have to personally make the call themselves whether to define something as an act of genocide or not. | This way, I think the full breadth of atrocities that have been done to a certain region or group can be seen in their historical context, and the continuity of the US impact on a region or people can be seen. I think separating each section by "atrocity type" creates a broken continuity that removes the atrocity from their context, reducing them to mere statistics that do not explain the issue dialectically. It also causes the editor/writer to have to personally make the call themselves whether to specifically define something as an act of genocide or not, a war crime or not, etc. | ||
Defining atrocities at the top of the article with a sufficient caveat explaining that atrocity is a difficult thing to define will then put it on the reader to use their own judgement in defining what happened to each region and people group when atrocities were committed there by the US, which I think is a more solid way to may progress on this article, as the editors of the article won't have to be determining which kind of atrocity was committed but can simply record all atrocities by region. (Edit: But they would also be free to describe/classify the atrocity in that section if they did see fit to do so). | Defining atrocities at the top of the article with a sufficient caveat explaining that atrocity is a difficult thing to define will then put it on the reader to use their own judgement in defining what happened to each region and people group when atrocities were committed there by the US, which I think is a more solid way to may progress on this article, as the editors of the article won't have to be determining which kind of atrocity was committed but can simply record all atrocities by region. (Edit: But they would also be free to describe/classify the atrocity in that section if they did see fit to do so). | ||