Talk:Expulsion of the Acadians
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Historical comparisons
The section is titled 'Historical comparisons' and it spends six of its seven paragraphs describing different authors' opposition to characterizing the described events as being ethnic cleansing or genocide. It should either be renamed "A historical comparison, and the extensive opinions of those who disagree with it" or it should be removed. One of the explanations of how it isn't genocide or ethnic cleansing includes a comparison to Indian Removal, whose article describes the policy as both genocide and ethnic cleansing. Another cites the historical fear that the Acadian populace might pose a military threat, making the actions carried out against said populace not able to be classified as genocide or ethnic cleansing, a fact that the ICC should probably be made aware of as soon as possible. Wouldn't want them convicting anyone who had "military reasons" for forcibly relocating civilian populations, would we?
On an unrelated note, there is a striking preponderance of Canadian authors cited in the section. This likely has nothing to do with the lengths it goes to in order to say that the acts were indeed not genocide or ethnic cleansing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.189.202.82 (talk) 07:55, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Actually Canadian authors almost universally overemphasize the significance of this event. This is a very biased article likely written mostly by Canadians. It’s part of the self loathing inherent to Canadian academia. People die of disease, people are displaced, ships sink.
- The treaty of Ultrecht which precipitated this event ended decades of no holds barred guerrilla warfare. Most would say the event is also well within international norms of the time. It could even be considered progressive when compared to how the Tudors dealt with foreign populations in the 16th century.
- In short you are right, that section only exists to address the inherent bias of this article. Neither are necessary 2001:56A:6FC7:D2D5:3D38:3771:804B:41DB (talk) 00:45, 12 March 2025 (UTC)