• PatFusty
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    2 months ago

    It was literally like 1 day after an invasion. You need to recognize that emotions came to play.

    As for your genocide of indigenous Americans, it’s a completely different topic. Don’t whatabout here please.

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      2 months ago

      That’s not whataboutism is lol.

      He’s not defending/minimizing doing something by pointing out the others have also done it… he’s comparing 2 situations, and saying that the definition of genocide is not limited to extinction.

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        2 months ago

        But what about this other thingggggg it’s completely relevanttt what about this thing tho it’s just like this what about that thing remember that thing? Oh my I know it doesn’t really have to do anything to do with this but what about that

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          2 months ago

          He said “by your definition this <other genocide> would not be considered one” (which it is).

          He’s not doing anything related to whataboutism, you clearly don’t know what it means. He’s presenting an argument for the definition and common usage of the word genocide. Try to follow

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            2 months ago

            if i had a genie my one wish would be to have the word whataboutism stricken from the minds of every single redditor

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              2 months ago

              What about Lemmy users too. Or what about the word redditor? I don’t like that word obviously. But really what about the word stricken cuz that triggers me

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                2 months ago

                good news, due to lemmy’s block feature you are now stricken from my notifications 😇

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                  2 months ago

                  I have had you tagged as communist for like 2ish months so I don’t really care

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            2 months ago

            I’m not in agreement with that either. I don’t agree that native Americans were involved in a genocide. I would imagine most people would agree with that. It’s a whatabout to me because it’s not even in a similar circumstance. If you look at actual examples of genocide it doesn’t look like native America or Gaza.