Your last paragraph is out of character for how you usually post. Hopefully you'll take a moment to rephrase it?
I have tried very hard to steer clear of saying much in this thread; the innocent dying and dead deserve more than my pontifications (I want an end to the innocent deaths full-stop), but I will say this. Whenever someone casually uses skin colour, it gets to me. There's been VIOLENT abuses of 'brown' and 'black' people by my nation of birth, your nation, and many MANY nations. Repeatedly. For decades. For centuries. But hey, let's keep it 'within most memories' for the sake of discussion. The first Afghan war. The first Iraq war. 2001. Afghanistan again after that. All with many many THOUSANDS of dead innocents. There's the Darfur genocide; 400,000 dead reports say. Most people know about Rwanda. Over one million Rohingya are in Bangladeshi camps hoping for some sort of life, with the Myanmar oppression having lasted decades and cost thousands of innocent lives. Has anyone ever given a fudge about the Kurds? Brown skin & black skin has LONG been on the receiving end in MANY places.
I most certainly do not claim to be remotely close to being an expert on any of this. I just wanted to point out that using terms and phrases (in these situations, IMO) needs to be approached with great care.
If history is 'beyond' the real-time memory of many today, it is all the more imperative that it be remembered and reinforced, from the unspeakably sadistic, deranged horrors of the holocaust to the awful regime destabilization of Iran in the '50s, which arguably led to many of the modern Middle Eastern issues we see, where outside proxies continue to play political and self-interested 'chess' with thousands and thousands of innocent lives throughout the region (and world).
I offer this in the spirit of discussion. I hope the world finds a way to stop the senseless killing, abuse, and subjugation of innocent people. I hope for a day the industrial military complex does not dominate geo-politics. I hope for a day the global pendulum swings away from populism...