A Cool Guide to genocides - eviltoast
  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

    “It’s a lot more complicated than that–”

    “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

    “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”

    “But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

  • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    These are aspects of genocide not stages.

    For example:

    1 Discrimination can start before symbolization
    
    2 The government doesn't need to create specific groups to perform actions
    
    3 Genocide doesn't need to include extermination
    
  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m seeing several of these as campaign slogans from some American politicians.

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    6 months ago

    I see we’re somewhere between 8 and 9 with Gaza, with some 10 sprinkled in.

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    6 months ago

    To my knowledge, with the exeption of number 5, Israel has checked every point of this list.

  • S_204@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    So exactly what Hamas has stated they want to do and have attempted to do. Crazy stuff.

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    6 months ago

    Apple is on stage 3 with the green/blue bubble thing :D

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      The most amazing part of this type of genocide is that people are paying a lot money in order to be discriminated against.