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World War I killed 20 million people.

The Great Influenza epidemic killed between 17 million and 100 million during and immediately after.

The odds of a soldier dying in WWII were 1 in 26.

The odds of a kidnapped Indigenous child dying in a residential school at the same time was 1 in 25.

As a culture, the choices we make around whose deaths are mourned and whose are forgotten are significant. 

Date: 2021-11-11 11:13 pm (UTC)
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I'm sure it's shown up other places, too, but one I remember seeing this argument is in Judith Butler's Precarious Life.

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