bonus: the admin’s goofy ass response a few minutes later:

  • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
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    why do they think that ethnic cleansing = population decrease? is hasbara made up of highschoolers? when you have an indiginious population massively replaced, that means you have “cleansed” that place of that indiginous population. here’s the wikipedia verison for the libs:

    “Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous.”

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      They think ethnic cleansing = genocide = ex-post-facto realization that the bad guys just killed a bunch of people oh my goodness this is so sad it’s just so unfortunate we didn’t know and didn’t do anything alas we must move on

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        1 year ago

        Well ok in this case perhaps not. There is another possibility, the sartre-pipe

        Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.