Not really - the two camps in the discussion were basically “jokes about genocide are always bad” and “white genocide isn’t real”. As a bleach demon myself I more fall into the second group: unless there is actually the preposterously unlikely cultural flip that leaves white people systemically oppressed I will continue making “jokes” - that is, comic exaggerations of my feelings towards the west - about us receiving the treatment we’ve inflicted on the world.
well im just one guy but i gotta say i do think it’s very distasteful and it makes me think less of every person i see saying it. genocide isn’t a joke and isn’t something to take lightly, and it is never a good thing.
Unfortunately that is no longer true. Every country the US doesn’t like is accused of doing a genocide so that the word really has lost all meaning. Meanwhile the US is doing a new genocide ever other year and we aren’t allowed to say it. Nah. The only way the word can have meaning is of we use it to describe blowing up fast food dispensatories
Sorry, can you please clarify what is no longer true? It’s no longer true that genocide isn’t a joke? It’s no longer true that genocide isn’t something to take lightly? It’s no longer true that genocide is never a good thing? Please, set aside the irony poisoning for a second and try to justify any of these statements without sounding like a fascist.
The point is that accusations of genocide are frequently bullshit, and when the topic is treated as sacrosanct it allows people to abuse it by attaching their bullshit lies and propaganda to the word. Most people on this website have been or would be accused of genocide denial for our stances on the “Uighur genocide,” and pearl clutching facilitates people not looking at the evidence critically. If you want to engage in every accusation seriously and in good faith, no matter how unreasonable it is, then you do you, but responding with over-the-top sarcastic/ironic acceptance of accusations is a common tactic around here. It’s why we have a clock telling us what time it is in Moscow, for instance.
Was there a final verdict so to speak ? …
Not really - the two camps in the discussion were basically “jokes about genocide are always bad” and “white genocide isn’t real”. As a bleach demon myself I more fall into the second group: unless there is actually the preposterously unlikely cultural flip that leaves white people systemically oppressed I will continue making “jokes” - that is, comic exaggerations of my feelings towards the west - about us receiving the treatment we’ve inflicted on the world.
well im just one guy but i gotta say i do think it’s very distasteful and it makes me think less of every person i see saying it. genocide isn’t a joke and isn’t something to take lightly, and it is never a good thing.
Unfortunately that is no longer true. Every country the US doesn’t like is accused of doing a genocide so that the word really has lost all meaning. Meanwhile the US is doing a new genocide ever other year and we aren’t allowed to say it. Nah. The only way the word can have meaning is of we use it to describe blowing up fast food dispensatories
Sorry, can you please clarify what is no longer true? It’s no longer true that genocide isn’t a joke? It’s no longer true that genocide isn’t something to take lightly? It’s no longer true that genocide is never a good thing? Please, set aside the irony poisoning for a second and try to justify any of these statements without sounding like a fascist.
The point is that accusations of genocide are frequently bullshit, and when the topic is treated as sacrosanct it allows people to abuse it by attaching their bullshit lies and propaganda to the word. Most people on this website have been or would be accused of genocide denial for our stances on the “Uighur genocide,” and pearl clutching facilitates people not looking at the evidence critically. If you want to engage in every accusation seriously and in good faith, no matter how unreasonable it is, then you do you, but responding with over-the-top sarcastic/ironic acceptance of accusations is a common tactic around here. It’s why we have a clock telling us what time it is in Moscow, for instance.