*CONTROVERSAL* WI:Modern Day Holocaust?

What if Hitler were alive today, and tried to carry out the Final Solution with all the technology we have today (Ie Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc.) would he have been able to do it on the same scale that he did in 1930s and 1940s, or would have caught on faster now that there is all this social networking?
 
Political and ethical society is much different from the 30's. He would be arrested and given life imprisonment for promoting/spreading Genocidal thoughts, before actually starting it.

There is still the UN. Though, if WWII never happened there might not be.
 
This POD ignores how the WWII that stopped the Final Solution produced most of the technology to lead to all of the above. However if it's asking if it's possible to carry out genocides in the information age, the answer is sadly "yes". As in the Holocaust itself people just read the papers, sigh and say "Oh, how dreadful" and turn to the sports section to see the latest stupidity done by some major league sporting team to rig the system.
 
This POD ignores how the WWII that stopped the Final Solution produced most of the technology to lead to all of the above. However if it's asking if it's possible to carry out genocides in the information age, the answer is sadly "yes". As in the Holocaust itself people just read the papers, sigh and say "Oh, how dreadful" and turn to the sports section to see the latest stupidity done by some major league sporting team to rig the system.
One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
 
I think the answer is: Yes it would be possible to carry out an organised genocide in the modern world, but it wouldn't be possible to keep it secret, disguise the true extent of it or prevent the discovery of death camps as happened to a degree in WWII. Assuming of course that we're talking about a 1st/2nd world country and not some place in the middle of Africa with a sparse population, massive expanses of jungle and very little internet acces/literacy in the areas where the genocide is taking place.
 
Yes it would be. Just ask Rwanda or Darfur.

They aren't quite as systematic as the Nazis, but yeah, mass murders happen even today. If they happen in strategically unimportant or distant places, then not a whole lot is done about it. Even when it happens in Europe (such as Bosnia) it is not immediately tackled.
 
Maybe the US pushes its way in and starts lobbing bunker-busters at places of interest... and in one case, Hitler survives an attack by being on the "wrong" side of a sturdy table?
 
It also depends if they are supporting the United States through trade or resources. Case and point, the People's Republic of China has certainly put together a long list of human rights violations which has included organ harvesting of political prisoners, ethnic and sectarian crackdowns in Tibet and East Uighurstan, and brutal religious suppression. Yet, we ill continue to grant China "most favored nation" (MFN) trade status, as long as they hold a sizable portion of our debt, remain one of our largest trading partners, and help the United States with other nuclear powers (e.g. North Korea and Iran).
 
They aren't quite as systematic as the Nazis, but yeah, mass murders happen even today. If they happen in strategically unimportant or distant places, then not a whole lot is done about it. Even when it happens in Europe (such as Bosnia) it is not immediately tackled.

I would say a genocide that knocked off 75% of its intended targets within three months plus scads more who were unlucky enough to be in the crossfire is systematic wouldn't you?

And yeah there has been more than one Holocaust since Adolf's time, never again is a farce if nobody wants it.
 

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It also depends if they are supporting the United States through trade or resources. Case and point, the People's Republic of China has certainly put together a long list of human rights violations which has included organ harvesting of political prisoners, ethnic and sectarian crackdowns in Tibet and East Uighurstan, and brutal religious suppression. Yet, we ill continue to grant China "most favored nation" (MFN) trade status, as long as they hold a sizable portion of our debt, remain one of our largest trading partners, and help the United States with other nuclear powers (e.g. North Korea and Iran).
... Conflating the likes of Hitler's Germany with the PRC establishes your ignorance of both systems. Yes the PRC is nasty and politcally repressive. What it is not is a hyper expansionist, militant, genocidal and totalitarian state run by a megalomaniacal madman.
 
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