Is it just me or is this phrasing, with its emphasis on "their own people," only ever leveled against communist states? I never hear it used to refer to, say, the killing of black Americans via slavery or the massacre of German Jews.
Is it just me or is this phrasing, with its emphasis on "their own people," only ever leveled against communist states? I never hear it used to refer to, say, the killing of black Americans via slavery or the massacre of German Jews.
I'm fairly sure the Soviets were smarter than viewing kulaks and nazi collaborators as "their own people" because frankly, they aren't. They have actively chosen to be enemies of the people. This is something that fascists, in their pre-political bootlicker minds, always fail to understand: That people aren't born as your enemies, they choose to be that.
It makes more sense if you start with the assumption that liberals view "their own people" as a racial category
When somebody tells me that "at least the nazis didn't kill their own people", my first guess isn't that they're a liberal.
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