• Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 months ago

    Sometimes I think Paradox whitewashes the Axis in HoI, but then I'm thankful that there is no button or reference to genocide because you just know there would be tons of videos going "Using Hitler's strategy and WINNING WWII!"

      • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Honest question: why did we accept the nickname Holodomor? Why don't we have catchy nicknames for the actually genocidal famines that the British did in their colonies? Why is it the "Belgian Congo atrocities" and not, idk, the "belgienocide" or the "capitalist turbo hand-cutter 3000"?

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          We don't and shouldn't. Accepting that name is literally Holocaust denial because that was its purpose — to minimize genocide by making a fictional one so that they can call us genocide deniers instead of them.

          I'm surprised they didn't have Yeonmi Park make up some catchier name for the Arduous March to be honest...

          • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            The fact that it has a translation doesn't make it less of a nickname. That's like saying the name "Raphael" isn't actually a name because it means "healing of the lord" in Hebrew