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.
The whole pretense of this statement is suspicious as fuck since it seems to imply that killing your own people is somehow a higher crime than killing foreigners. It's just racist/nationalist chauvinism dressed up with false concern for loss of human life. And yes, it is of course used to demonize Socialist states. Socialist states are isolated economically by the immune system of Imperialist capitalism and then we are told that the deaths which result from sanctions and embargoes and sabotage other forms of scarcity imposed deliberately by imperialists are somehow "communists killing their own people." DPRK is "Killing it's own people." Kim Jong Un "needs to feed his people". You hear that a lot. It's a mockery of anyone paying attention and a lullaby for anyone who isn't.