I have reallllly been trying to not go down this road again, but I have to at this point.
If you say you want to “clean out” a geographic area that is currently inhabited by one ethnic group, in order to make room for another, that is called ethnic cleansing.
The President of the United States just endorsed, whole heartedly, ethnic cleansing.
Y’all dumb motherfuckers think he is above putting people in camps and building ovens? Do ya? Fuck off.
I think anyone saying "he doesn't really mean it" at this point low-key hopes that he does and are just "saving face" until they feel.more comfortable taking the mask off.
@mcnado and even if he’s more franco than hitler so fucking what? That is still real fucking bad.
@mcnado No need for ovens when the 2000 lb bombs he just agreed to send will have the same effect without the irony.
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I heard a genocide scholar strongly argue against this term because it's a cynical weasel word. The term genocide activates a nations states legal obligations to stop the genocide. "Ethnic cleansing" doesn't carry the same legal ramifications.
@robloblaw @mcnado like in this article: https://mastodon.world/@mkpetkova/113895052131055468
"Cleansing" or cleaning is a military word used to clear an area. Forcing an entire group of people to move from their homes is #genocide. And evacuation (another term used) can be just the same. It was used to move Jews, first to the gettos and then to the camps in the east...
@mcnado This dumb mother fucker never thought that, but would love to fuck off. Where to tho?
@mcnado I'm so scared that I'm still here and have 2 fragile parents that can't be moved.
@mcnado when I was younger, I didn’t understand why Jordan wouldn’t take in the refugees. I realized at one point that they did not want to enable ethnic cleansing by accepting them.
Colombia, not accepting ICE deportees goes along the same lines.
Ovens are not the problem, it is the 'showers' that are the danger.