Comment on Germans: what genocide?

• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • zazo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • blitzkrieg@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again, what so you call ethnically cleansing and starving an entire population?

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