I know it's kind of a thing here, but ironically calling for the deaths of everyone from the same race/country/cultural background as people doing something fucked up has always struck a wrong chord in me.

Seeing it pretty much never fails to make me sad, and I think I've finally got the words to articulate why.

A) Saying we should kill everyone of someone's race/culture/nationality implies that the bad person's race/culture/nationality is the reason they did the thing they did. Which is anti-material and reactionary.

B) It kind of says that the people from that race/culture/nationality etc can't get better and the best we can hope for is for them to vanish from the world entirely.

I get that the bit probably started off as irony posting "we should nuke britain" under a story of a british person doing something we don't like in the same way chuds post "we should glass the middle east" under a story about someone brown doing something they don't like but I think that this sort of posting has moved on from that, and gained a life of its own. Anything posted consistently enough, no matter how ironic it initially was, will slowly become stripped of its irony and without irony this bit is either straight up reactionary shit, defeatism, or some combination of the two.

I know it's a low effort ironic meme, and this isn't really directed at you @SweetCheeks and I don't think most people posting it are trying to convey these things but I do think that those messages are conveyed by this sort of posting.