I've seen too much of this. No, the nazis and the Soviets were not equivalent.

Do. Better.

  • aaro [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    It's technically not holocaust denial, they got their ethnic cleansing death toll pretty reasonable. Double genocide works by dragging down the Holocaust and dragging up the USSR's deaths, they're only doing the latter. Obviously none of us agree with their take on the USSR's situatuon but I wanna give them a minute to say their piece so we can talk about it

    • Rom [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      "Holocaust trivialization" is a term I learned today after researching what the double genocide theory is, that I think applies here.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        How exactly did I trivialize the Holocaust here? It’s not okay in any way to deliberately kill 12 million people.

        • Rom [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          By highly exaggerating or completely fabricating a whole bunch of numbers, you assert that the Soviets killed 100 million people, and thus you are trivializing the 12 million killed by the Nazis. As others have already explained to you, the "communism killed 100 million" figure has been widely debunked by actual historians, and the deaths that the Soviet Union really were responsible for were caused by famines and mismanagement, and not deliberate attempts at genocide. Arguing "the Soviets were worse, actually" trivializes the deliberate genocide conducted by the Nazi regime, and overlooks the fact that no credible evidence has ever been presented to demonstrate genocidal intent by the Soviets.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I've spoken with that user before and they're a piece of shit, but you can do as you please

        • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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          11 months ago

          lmao looked at their post history and they literally cite Ayn Rand michael-laugh

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            When the Bolsheviks took away a faildaughter's estate and made her have to mingle with the poors until she ragequit to the United States wojak-nooo

            Writing extremely bloated masturbatory fanfic about how the rich are rapacious living gods that ragequit to a magical gulch powered by science fantasy until the poors beg for the living gods to return so-true

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                One of my favorite true stories, the libertarian town taken over by bears. chefs-kiss

                I can only imagine how "Galt's Gulch" would really go. Well, if it ever got out of the financing phase where each and every "Galt's Gulch" proclaimed by some kiddie creeping grifter involved taking the money and running, leaving the other kiddie creepers high and dry.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          I think my fellows covered that well enough. Is there an ambiguity somewhere?

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Genocide and ethnic cleansing are not interchangeable. Genocide is destruction of a group of people, ethnic cleansing is physical expulsion or exclusion of a group of people from an area.

      Trying to downplay genocide as ethnic cleansing is arguably a type of Holocaust denial, but most people don't understand the nuances.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        I’m sorry I didn’t understand those terms clearly.

        I was trying to emphasize that the Nazis’ categorical decisions were based on race, sexuality, and political affiliation.

        The Soviets’ selection process was mainly based on politics and economic class.