Wait, What? Are You Telling Me That The Romans Weren't Genocidal

[VikLevaPatel]

If the Total Extinction of the Continental Celts doesn't constitute genocide, then nothing does.

From: A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (Kevin MacDonald, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994):

The Greek and Roman pattern of conquest and empire-building, unlike that of the Israelites described in the Tanakh, did not involve genocide followed by the creation of an ethnically exclusivist state that dominated the remnants of the conquered peoples (the Nethinim) and never assimilated them even after many centuries. Rather, the tendency was for conquest to be followed in the long run by genetic and cultural assimilation. The Romans are generally viewed as being derived from an ethnically mixed group of Italians and other groups (McDonald 1966). Moreover, the long-term trend in the Roman Empire was for gradually increasing conferral of citizenship, culminating in the granting of virtually universal citizenship in 212 AD. by Caracalla. There was also a gradual representation of provincials in the senate and equestrian order, and provincials replaced Italians as emperors by the third century (Garnsey 8: Saller 1987, 9).

Assimilation... Professor MacDonald uses that word a lot, it's his favorite word.

Although the term itself is of recent origin, genocide arguably has been practiced throughout history. According to Thucydides, for example, the people of Melos were slaughtered after refusing to surrender to the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War. Indeed, in ancient times it was common for victors in war to massacre all the men of a conquered population.