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[–] SattaRIP@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Communists" who think USSR and CCP are good. They often deny their war crimes, then when you prove them they attempt to justify them. Basically red fascists.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How the hell does someone justify genocide?

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People deny the ongoing genocide of indigenous North Americans all of the time. It's really easy when you have some sort of intrinsic motivation to do so, apparently.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ongoing? Please explain. My own country (Canada) is sadly guilty of committing what is tantamount to indigenous genocide in the past through residential schools. But I haven't heard of anything so serious happening currently.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My own country (Canada) is sadly guilty of of committing ongoing indigenous genocide. One merely needs to look up the term as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convntion to understand how.

It defines genocide as any of these five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group":

We tick every box. Every. Single. One. Always have, and continue to do so.

[–] MasterKitty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] MasterKitty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“It was a necessary evil against aggression”

“It was a guerrilla group unaffiliated to the red cause”

“It was an attack by the the blues to make us look bad”

Etc.

Pick your poison.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd like to see them make that argument for the great terror...