Jonah, I am reminded of one day in grad school when the topic of the collectivization came up (on the occasion of the airing of the documentary Harvest of Despair during a special 2-hour Firing Line). I noted that Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 7 million Ukrainians. An American student — not even a radical — countered, “But they were Kulaks!” I wondered then, as now, how many other nouns could fill in that blank to justify the intentional deaths of that many people in a way acceptable to various subsets of the intelligentsia. More than they would be willing to admit I’m sure.