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Disclaimer: This is a highly contentious and subjective question involving race, ethnicity and other related topics. Do not post current politics, flamebait or generally offensive content, otherwise the moderators will lock the thread. Keep the discussion civil as possible. This thread is for educational and writing purposes only.

The previous thread: Have European/Near Eastern people ever faced oppression, persecution and genocide in history? was supposed to discuss about events in history where people from Europe/Near East or people with ancestry ultimately from Europe/Near East faced forms of oppression and discrimination. It was an interesting thread with its own style and purpose of learning history.

Instead, the whole point of the discussion went null when users started thinking the thread is about 'white (racial category) ever faced oppression and discrimination' and race-based politics. I locked the thread because I was unwilling to necro the thread as well with the racial topics, and the fact the thread has run its course.

From that locked thread, I collected several examples for the posters to discuss about as well add their own examples of oppression/discrimination of European/Near Eastern peoples.
* Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-1653)
* Corsairs and the Barbary Slave Trade (16th-18th century)
* Mongolian invasion of Eastern Europe (13th century)
* 1804 Haiti massacre
* Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
* Greek Genocide (1914-1923)
* Assyrian Genocide (1914-1925)
* Great Irish Famine (1845-1849)
* Boer Concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1900-1902)
* The Holodomor (1932-1933)
* Land reforms under Robert Mugabe
* Ottoman rule in the Balkans
* Jewish quotas in American universities
* March 14, 1891 lynchings
* Moorish rule of Iberia (Al-Andalus) (711-1492)
* Internment of Allied POWs by Japan during WW2
* Punic Wars
* Siege of Fort Zeelandia in Formosa by Koxinga (1661-1662)
* Communist repressions in the Warsaw Pact (1955-1991)
* Charlemagne's massacres of the Saxons
* The Great Purge by Stalin (1936-1938)
* Reconstruction-era terror campaigns of the KKK and other revanchist movements
* Discrimination of Jews, Irish, Italians, Spanish and Eastern Europeans
* The Holocaust (1941-1945)
* Pre-emancipation Russian serfdom (1723-1861)
* Viking slave raids on Britain and Ireland and slave markets in Russia.
* Tartar raids on Ruthenian duchies
* Tamerlane's massacres of Assyrians, Georgians and Armenians
* Transportation of convicts to Australia in the 18th century
* Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
* Circassian Genocide (19th century)
* War in the Vendee (1793)
* Reign of Terror (June 1793-July 1975)
* Persecution of the Cagots

This is the new list for the thread, based on the previous threads and my previous lurking for history. Have fun with the new thread discussing history and other related activities.
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