Aral BalkanMay 27

“50,000 dead Palestinians isn’t enough to call it genocide.”

How fucking morally vacuous do you have to be for such a thought to even enter that privileged brain of yours?

Forget the consensus of every genocide scholar out there that this is genocide. Forget the live-streamed suffering. How devoid of humanity are you for your argument to be “that’s just not enough dead people for me.”

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #Western #complicity #privilege

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@aral also genocide isn't dependent on # of people killed? it's defined by intent. if I systematically set out to exterminate all nauruans, that's a genocide. it doesn't matter that there are only like a thousand of them. the best you can say is that an unusually high death toll is probably correlated with genocide, but i'm pretty sure that by that logic, so is being german.
May 27 at 3:52pmWeb
Show threada fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️May 27
@aral Update: Using Wikipedia's list of genocides as a reasonable list, or at least one that reflects a random sampling of genocides:
1 has been committed by Israel
2 by the RSF & allies
1 by Myanmar
1 by China
3 by Russia/USSR
1 by Ethiopia
2 by ISIS
3 by Rwanda and allies
1 by Bosnian serbs
1 by Somalia
1 by Iraq
1 by Zimbabwe
1 by Lebanese Christians
1 by the Khmer Rouge
1 by Indonesia
1 by Idi Amin
1 by Burundi
1 by Pakistan
1 by Zanzibar
1 by Guatemala
1 by Sinhalas
1 by Croatia
more coming
Show threada fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️May 27
@aral 5 by Germany
1 by Serbians
1 more by China, total 2
1 by Haudenashonee
1 by Spain
1 by Pope Innocent III
3 more by Russia/USSR, total 6
1 by Dominican Republic
1 by Italy
1 by William King Hale
5 by Turkey/Ottoman Empire
1 by Afghanistan
1 by Argentina
1 by Colombia
1 by Haiti
2 by the US
2 by Australia
1 by Maori
1 by Uruguay
caveat in next post
Show threada fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️May 27
@aral Caveat: I don't agree with all of these characterized as genocides (Osage murders, for instance, were pretty clearly motivated by money) and many that I'd characterize as such were left out (Khmielnicki, Russian Empire pogroms/policies, Russian Civil War pogroms, Norway/Swedish actions as regards Sami, Tibet, Stolen Generations, boarding schools in Canada/US, Congo Free State, Japan in WW2, Roman actions against Jews, etc., etc.). But this was a lot easier than doing that kind of analysis.