Execute the Brutes

Exterminate All the Brute Interpretive Paper

Sven Lindqvist's book, "Exterminate All the Brutes", explains and informs people of the many things they might now already know, most specifically about the history of genocide, and to display some of the messages based on these events and actions that had happened throughout the history of the European continent and parts of our world. I wholeheartedly agree with the undisputed message to the reader that all humans have done is exterminate the brutes, or lower races, starting at the beginning of humankind and going all of the way to the Holocaust. False scientific reasoning and theories have placed this idea subliminally into our minds. Human’s turned a blind eye to a lot of the atrocities happening because they were not committing these horrendous acts themselves, and ultimately believed that these conquests for expansion and extermination would lead them to a better future in their mind. The main focus of the Sven Lindqvist's argument in "Exterminate All the Brutes", explaining historical events in the past such as genocides in Africa during Europe’s dark reign of attempted colonization. The argument presented is that all humans have done is exterminate the lower races or “the brutes”, then try to justify this by backing their actions up with scientific theories and reasoning. Lindqvists even uses the ideas of several scientists throughout the novel to try and show people what the scientists actually thought. It was a brainwash of society, backed up by the biased scientific ideas and thoughts of the times. For instance, he uses the scientist Edward von Hartmann section from his book, where he is quoted by saying, "so little is their humanity in artificially prolonging the death struggles of savages who are on the verge of extinction." I think that the quote can be interpreted as they are better off dead. Many other scientists can be noted for thinking