Master Sulan & The Lie of ‘Sith Genocide’
I’ve seen many references - on Tumblr and elsewhere - that the Jedi have committed “genocide” against the Sith thousands of years ago, and so the Sith are justified wiping out the Jedi, destroying the Republic... and enslaving everyone else... as a means of self-defense.
In a word : No. In three words: No, no, no.
As an Order, the Jedi do not perpetuate genocide. There are countless examples in the EU where the Order has had the opportunity to indiscriminately kill dark-side groups and factions. They don’t do that. The Massassi on Yavin are enjoying a perfectly viable existence, and there’s no evidence the Jedi went after them. The Nekghouls on Taris (see above) were basically forged from Sith alchemy; yet they are not targeted for death. The Nightmare Lands on Voss are incredibly Dark-side, but there’s no evidence the Jedi are doing anything more than surveying what the heck is happening there. And there are many other examples.
Yes, of course, there are individual examples of Jedi losing all sense of perspective. Ass-hats lite Jaric Kaedan, who spent a lifetime fighting the Sith and who - perhaps inevitably - reached the wrong conclusion.
That’s what war does to people. And it is wrong, but it is not the norm.
Satele Shan - and the Jedi in general - do not call for the extermination of dark-siders. Gnost-Dural has a delightful conversation in Onslaught with Lana Beniko that is oh so much fun. And Master Sulan actively teaches the Nekghouls that there are better ways of learning than indiscriminate slaughter.
Yes, Sulan fails, here. His Nekghouls abandon him when he loses. And in the default scenario, he dies. But this is not genocide. This is not persecution. This is not what the anti-Jedi propagandists would have you believe of the Jedi teachings.
Deciding that “in my point of view, the Jedi are evil!” might be an “edgy” position to take, but it is not supported by 95% of the content.