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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

this is some Final Solution level shit right here.

how the fuck is the world letting this happen?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

The wealthy part of the world is controlled by Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Because they have an ally with a very big gun on his hip. Politicial change is created from the barrel of a gun and they have lots.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It benefits the current power of the ruling classes and they know no morality but that which reinforces their power.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the bombs and delivery systems are from amerikkka

The United States is ethnically cleansing Northern Gaza. The blowback will be absolutely justified.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

%30 also is from Germany which is following its proud tradition of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep using the word genocide. This isn't ethnic cleansing and never was.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The term ethnic cleansing has some problematic aspects and in my opinion it should not be used.

First of all, calling a campaign of genocidal mass expulsions a "cleansing" concedes to the racist ideology behind by implying that the victims are "dirt" whose violent removal leaves the place "clean" and better than it was before.

Unlike the term genocide which elicits a moral reaction in must people and has a clear meaning in international law, the term "ethnic cleansing" sounds less severe and calling something an "ethnic cleansing" does not impose any legal obligations on either the perpetrators or other international actors. By being so vaguely defined it allows disingenuous outside actors to talk the talk of condemning what is going on without having to walk the walk of taking material actions to stop it from happening.

"Ethnic cleansing" has a history of being used to whitewash genocide, making clearly genocidal acts sound more palatable to casual observers.

Instead, I think the term genocide is better in most cases. If you want to discuss the specific genocidal act of removing a tergeted population from an area, value-neutral descriptive terms like "forced population transfer" are to be preferred over euphemisms like "ethnic cleansing" in my view.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Always hated the term ethnic cleansing for the reasons you stated. Doing PR softening on the word genocide and implying the perpetrators are doing good through use of the word 'cleansing'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Strong agree from me; cleansing isn't a word to describe terror.

gold-communist

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Zionists will tell you with a straight face that saying Israel is committing genocide is antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

zionists will tell you stright face "arabs must stop doing terrorism"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This "general plan" has the same aims as general plan ost. This is an extermination not an ethnic cleansing and calling it that is minimizing what is happening.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Generalplan Coast

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is the practical difference between "ethnic cleansing" and genocide? I always thought they were just different terms for the same thing (specifically that "ethnic cleansing" was the more hitlerian manner of speech).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Genocide is intended to kill everyone in the target group. Ethnic cleansing includes genocide, but also mass deportation/expulsion.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hearing some word on the vine. They're seperating men and women taking men to undisclosed areas blindfolded. Like khal Younis they will meet a grim fate. This is monstrous

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow this proves how nuanced and both sided this conflict is! Don’t forget to vote (for the candidate I want).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's gotten so hard to laugh at this joke; saying libs are ghoulish is an understatement. The election hasn't occurred yet and the genocide is at final solution levels with Kamala's full cackling support, with libs openly laughing when protesters tell them what's happening.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What did the killing of Yahya Sinwar signal, to cause the occupation's extermination to go into overdrive? Were they that scared of him?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they started this final solution level shit in northern gaza before he died.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ya they were mentioning it couple weeks ago weren't they? It's just still rolling along.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

I hate it here

amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

the only good israeli is a dead israeli

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It breaks my heart that I can't even engage in social media about this. The first 6 months of this iteration of Israeli violence nearly broke me as a person.

I don't have any words for this horror.