What's more bazinga - their dehumanizing of foreigners, declaring every event outside of the global north down to the length scale of quantum interactions a genocide, or the idea that the supreme leader of an entire country also spent lockdown in isolation watching reality TV and wanking their tiddler into corned beef?
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Yes, we must be very careful not to anthropomorphize people.
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Lol Kim is committing genocide now? Against who? North Koreans?
Ever since white americans decided they actually gave a damn about muslims with the whole xinjiang thing, everything that every non-western-allied country does is literally genocide
"genocide" is the cool new swear word americans just heard from their friends at school and now they cant stop saying it
Hmm, I feel like there is something wrong with my made-up psychoanalysis as an explanation of world events... Oh, I know, it's a little too humanizing!
the idea that the supreme leader of an entire country also spent lockdown in isolation watching reality TV and wanking their tiddler into corned beef?
this almost definitely did happen though
It seems like for most people "Genocide" just means "Very bad thing no details".
Because, like... I wouldn't want to live in Russia, given the choice. And I wouldn't want to live in NK. And nothing that I'm aware of even resembling genocide in any definition has ever been carried out by the Russian Federation or the DPRK. Like even the worst allegations made don't describe anything like genocide.
It seems like for most people “Genocide” just means “Very bad thing no details”.
Yeah it's a completely meaningless word at this point, like "authoritarianism".
Authoritarianism is when you don't count votes. Western democracy is when your vote don't count.
I think also the fact that you could, in some lib discourse circles, immediately call anyone pushing back against you claiming genocide as a "genocide denier" has lead this to being a favorite go-to accusation for "bad country"
