• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      The US needs to stop funding genocide.

      Use the word. It’s important. It’s what it is. This is a modern holocaust happening before our eyes, and we are complicit in it.

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        I agree that the word is appropriate, but it’s also problematic because it has legal definitions that are almost never met. Someone will inevitably argue with the use of the term, and the conversation will be completely derailed by a vocabulary debate

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          They can argue all they want. I really don’t care.

          The legal definitions of genocide are only difficult to meet because they were written by countries with their own histories of genocide. That’s why it’s so hard to prove.

          That’s not a standard we need to hold ourselves to.

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                  What’s absurd is holding the holocaust to such a standard that we cannot compare it to anything or learn anything from history.

                  It’s disrespectful to holocaust survivors, this shit I see posted here, especially to the ones saying never again now.

                  Don’t use the holocaust to make this genocide okay. That’s antisemitic.

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                    9 months ago

                    Technically correct is the best kind of correct

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              Out of curiosity, what is the actual limit for an acceptable quantity of genocide? Like, I’m trying to understand if there’s a hard number of murdered civilians that Isreal has to reach before we can make comparisons to the holocaust, or if it’s more just a vibes thing?

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              Ah yes, I guess this means a “small holocaust” is perfectly fine…

              I thought the survivors said NEVER AGAIN. The scale is irrelevant. Israel created one of the biggest manmade famine in histroy at an unprecedented speed. Why destroy all roads and hospitals and stop aid? I’ll let you answer that one.

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              9 months ago

              Israel is killing in Gaza at the speed of a large concentration camp at the peak of the Holocaust.