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why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/"tankies”.

Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.

Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.

Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I’m not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed…)

to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.

If they do not support using a country’s military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?

First of all…..how is the US not a democratic country?

Uh… Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?

Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2.

No idea of what’s been going on in Canada. POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region. The question about Israel’s democracy is an interesting one that I need to ponded more!

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TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.

And my rebuttal proves that those qualities are not really unique to fascism nor “tankies” and are therefore redundant. You could have just as easily said governments do governmental things and would have made just as valid as a point.

Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I’m not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed…)

And what proof is there that they are loosing their ethnic or national identity?

Secondly even the most inflammatory citations about the interment camps do not claim they are indefinite, mostly claiming that they are held for 10 months to two years.

Lastly, interning Japanese Americans during ww2 is an example of temporary internment camps based on ethnicity.

If they do not support using a country’s military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?

I provided several examples of democratic nations using their military against their own citizens. I have also already explained the reason it was relevant was because it disproves your claim.

Uh… Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?

Lol, do you know how a democratic nation is defined? Any country that derives it’s authority through elected representatives is a democratic nation. Just because those democratically elected officials are conducting themselves in a way that you or I do not agree with does not mean it’s not a democracy.

Democracy does not mean “only does good” it’s an organizational hierarchy that reflects the political majority.

No idea of what’s been going on in Canada.

Ahh, so ignorance is your defense…great.

POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region.

Wut? You do know that one of the main reasons for Nazi concentration camps were for pows…

Is your claim that democratic countries are morally just in any action so long as they aren’t utilized solely for ethnic cleansing? Also… That would preclude the Uyghur internment camps as they are not being removed from China or Xijiang.

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