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

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

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

        I bow to the master.

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          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.

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

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        I think he might have been commenting about how the opposition is/was fighting to keep the Genocide wording out of the article.

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        Israel doesn’t think it’s genocide.

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          I don’t get it. Did the irony/sarcasm of the top-level comment fly over your head?

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              Yeah, I thought the sarcasm was pretty clear with all the flags that represent the countries whose governments would have that opinion un-ironically

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          Israel doesn’t think it’s genocide.

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            No no no, they don’t say it’s genocide. I’m pretty sure they are fully aware it’s genocide, as that’s the purpose.

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              Hehe well, knowing your doing something and saying you’re doing something is definitely a skill authoritarian governments have mastered.