“Calling people animals is always an ominous sign because it sets them up for humiliation, exploitation, and murder. It is significant, for example, that in the years leading up to the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Turks referred to Armenians as rajah”

—  Charles Patterson (author)

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Source: Eternal Treblinka (2002), p. 28

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