Genocide is Usually Exaggerated

The overwhelming tendency in human nature is to exaggerate when accounting for terrible events. Yet this truth is lost on almost all the intellectuals, psychologists, scholars and historians who tell us our history. The prevailing wisdom in academic circles is that there is all this terrible history that is hidden and must be uncovered. This is the fuel that fires the imaginations of the writers and researchers who drive up the numbers that they report in their estimated tallies of deaths due to political genocide. Almost always the numbers are exaggerated. But since we all love to embellish when we tell terrible stories, the numbers are almost always universally accepted.