Genocide Rummuel Mann Analysis

Rummel argues that democracies and genocide are not connected to each other, and that democracies in fact don’t commit what he calls democide. Mann on the other hand argues that democracy and genocide are related, and that genocide was a fundamental part of the creation of modern day democracies. Both Rummel and Mann provided the readers with evidence to support their claim. When looking at two arguments, a person should try to compare the two sides and look for similarities and differences before choosing who to stand with. Rummel’s evidence to support his claim were graphs, tables, and numbers that compared the democratic countries against the non-democratic. His data supported the idea that democracies don’t commit suicide. Rummels seems to always blame genocide on non-democratic governments and he seems to have a unique definition of the concept of power. He concluded that more
In my humble opinion, numbers are good evidence for the most part but when we talk about a big topic like genocide, numbers seem unfitting for me because you never know if the numbers are true or not. When Mann used the Western Colonization as evidence to support his agenda, there were no doubts about that because no historian can argue that the colonization didn’t happen. Mann fired shots at Rummel when he implied that the Western Colonization was a democracy that committed genocide. The similarities between the two cases for me are the fact that they both talk about the issue of genocide, and how it is related or not related to democracy. The differences come to existence when genocide and democracy come in contact with each other. Rummel has one argument and Mann has the other and this is where the differences and beliefs begin to rise and eventually the two collide and express their