SOCY423 Week 3 Discussion: Oppression, Slavery, and Genocide

SOCY423 Week 3 Discussion: Oppression, Slavery, and Genocide

Choose one of the country case studies of mass atrocities on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website ( https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries ).  In your main post, briefly summarize the case and explain how the situation presents a danger to a particular racial/ethnic group or set of groups.  Then, using at least  one of the other Learning Resources from this week answer one of the following two questions:  How does the dominant societal group seek to benefit from oppressing another social group?  Or, what are the potential long-term consequences of oppression for this group?