• TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    By refusing to properly quarantine, the U.S. suffered 2 million excess deaths.

    Excess deaths are usually the way these 'massacres' and 'famines' are counted.

    • solaranus
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      1 year ago

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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No, because then they would also count any decline in the birthrate as also being part of it.

      Then again, calling it a genocide isn't the worst thing when you consider who died the most under US covid policy

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I mean, they generally do. The decline in birthrate is the entire reason Zenz calls 'genocide' in Xinjiang.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Declining birthrate can mean something -- in Zenz's case he specifically claims forced sterilization (bullshit, obviously) -- but the birthrate merely declining is assigned as the corresponding number of "deaths" in pop-historiography of communist famines without any attempt to justify the causal mechanism. It is 100% statistical sleight-of-hand that makes Zenz look like a master sophist by contrast.