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#760 Jonathan Maynard - Ideology and Mass Killing: The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides

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The Ideological Dimension of Violence

David Frum: Why do mass killings occur then? What are their causes? He says there's two main factors that we need to think about. "Crisis and ideology is the most fundamental explanation of why mass killings occur," he says. For those who are more committed to ideological limits on violence, they will often use strategies that don't involve mass killing,. But if you're kind of ideologically more inclined to avoid mass killings,Then you can avoid mass killings even in severe crises."

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