• blitzkrieg@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    What do you call ethnically cleansing and starving an entire population? Is that not genocide?

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      7 months ago

      I think Lemmy likes perpetuating a particular propaganda that keeps reiterating the same talking points until they are engraved in your brain. Genocide is an extremely specific judgement that requires both evidence of specific intent and specific action. You can make claims to one but not to both. The intent doesn’t match the action.

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        7 months ago

        So saying “wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth” followed by almost continuous bombardment isn’t in your eyes evidence of specific intent and action, because they haven’t wiped them out yet? Therefore, by your own definition, the colonizing Europeans never commited genocide against the indigenous American population, because there’s still native Americans left and they have their own nature reserves to reside in?

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          7 months ago

          It was literally like 1 day after an invasion. You need to recognize that emotions came to play.

          As for your genocide of indigenous Americans, it’s a completely different topic. Don’t whatabout here please.

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            7 months ago

            That’s not whataboutism is lol.

            He’s not defending/minimizing doing something by pointing out the others have also done it… he’s comparing 2 situations, and saying that the definition of genocide is not limited to extinction.

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              7 months ago

              But what about this other thingggggg it’s completely relevanttt what about this thing tho it’s just like this what about that thing remember that thing? Oh my I know it doesn’t really have to do anything to do with this but what about that

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                7 months ago

                He said “by your definition this <other genocide> would not be considered one” (which it is).

                He’s not doing anything related to whataboutism, you clearly don’t know what it means. He’s presenting an argument for the definition and common usage of the word genocide. Try to follow

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                  7 months ago

                  if i had a genie my one wish would be to have the word whataboutism stricken from the minds of every single redditor

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                    7 months ago

                    What about Lemmy users too. Or what about the word redditor? I don’t like that word obviously. But really what about the word stricken cuz that triggers me

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                  7 months ago

                  I’m not in agreement with that either. I don’t agree that native Americans were involved in a genocide. I would imagine most people would agree with that. It’s a whatabout to me because it’s not even in a similar circumstance. If you look at actual examples of genocide it doesn’t look like native America or Gaza.