• Billiam
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    1086 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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      296 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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        236 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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        66 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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          66 days ago

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