• @whithom@discuss.online
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    10413 days ago

    Because everyone knows if you say it’s not genocide, it’s not genocide. 🇨🇳🇮🇱🇷🇺🇺🇸

    • Billiam
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      10813 days ago

      If it doesn’t come from the Armenian region of Türkiye it’s not a genocide, it’s sparkling ethnic cleansing.

      • Flying SquidM
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        2913 days ago

        Damn it, you came up with a better ‘sparkling’ joke than I was thinking of.

        I bow to the master.

        • Billiam
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          2313 days ago

          I’ve been relistening to the Hardcore History episodes about World War 1, and Dan Carlin makes an interesting observation: Türkiye gets so pissy when you call what the Young Turks did the “Armenian genocide” but genocides are so common throughout history that it would be notable if a country didn’t commit one. Israel is also mad about calling what they’re doing in Gaza as a genocide, insisting that the 40,000 Gazans who have been killed were obviously Hamas, even 70% of which were women and children.

          “Genocide” and “Nazi” are now odd words in English- they’re concepts that certain deplorable people have no qualms with idealizing and adhering to, as long as you don’t call them that.

        • @whithom@discuss.online
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          613 days ago

          I would also love to hear yours. That line of sparkling comparison is definitely something I’m going to add to my vocabulary

          • Flying SquidM
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            613 days ago

            Unfortunately, two hours later, I’ve totally forgotten it. Sorry.

    • Amphobet
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      -1113 days ago

      Hi. Did you read the article, by any chance?