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.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    On top of the fact that it accepts the Nazi position that German Jews weren’t “Real Germans,” I’d argue that as a general rule, a country invading another and killing people there is worse than killing its own citizens, not lighter