Today, on my daily #WikipediaRabbitHole I was reading on Voltairine de Cleyre, the Haymarket affair, and I ended up searching for a Wikipedia article on "Great Railroad Strike of 1877" (which seems to have also been called "the Great Upheaval").

I was surprised to discover there were two events that carried the same "Great Upheaval" title. That is how I also ended up reading about the "Expulsion of the Acadians" (or "Grand Dérangement").

To get to the point of this toot, I was surprised to read the debate about whether the Expulsion of Acadians qualified as #genocide or #EthnicCleansing

To me --- a mere couch historian --- the argument that not labeling something as genocide or ethnic cleansing because the
term "carries too much present-day emotional weight" seems like a logical fallacy:

It feels like arguing that #rape did not occur until the early 15th century because rape did not carry that particular meaning until then. (Before that, the word for rape was constupration --- from Latin "stuprum", meaning "defilement").

To me, it seems like some historians are arguing that it did not qualify as ethnic cleansing, more like "ethnic tidying".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians

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Also Fuck Ian Watkins

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It's a good time to say Fuck Tim Westwood

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