• paholg@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Nice whataboutism. But fuck it, I'll bite. A genocide has absolutely happened in the US, funny that you didn't hit on it.

    Let's play a game. I'm going to call it, "can we agree on some basic facts?"

    Stalin, through his policies and leadership, killed millions of Soviet citizens. True or false?

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      A genocide has absolutely happened in the US, funny that you didn't hit on it.

      So you're denying genocide now.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      funny that you didn’t hit on it.

      Apologies for the confusing wording above. That’s because I was comparing two similar events to see if you would call it a genocide when the U.S. did it. If you did, I’d question your definition of genocide, but at least accept you’re applying it consistently.

      I absolutely agree with you on that basic fact — the US has engaged in countless successful genocides against indigenous peoples.

      Stalin, through his policies and leadership, killed millions of Soviet citizens.

      False.

      First of all, to attribute deaths solely to one individual (even to Hitler) denies anyone else responsible of their free will in doing so.

      @ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml, would you mind holding this lib up to scrutiny since the one on Hexbear didn’t respond?

      • paholg@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        First of all, to attribute deaths solely to one individual (even to Hitler) denies anyone else responsible of their free will in doing so.

        Fair, but this is just kind of a thing we do with language.

        If we can't agree that millions of people in the USSR were killed, sent to gulags, and died of famine during Stalin's leadership, then I'm not sure there's anything worth discussing.

        Similarly, the article you linked about 7 million US deaths in the great depression doesn't even take itself seriously. It's just trying to discredit counts for deaths in the Holodomor. I suspect you don't think that many people died as a result of the great depression, and, if you're not going to argue in good faith, then again I believe we are at an impasse.

        Finally, there is no need for name-calling. While I do not consider "lib" nearly as much an insult as you likely intend it, I would still not categorize myself as such.

        • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          If we can't agree that millions of people in the USSR were killed, sent to gulags, and died of famine during Stalin's leadership

          Can we agree that millions of people in the USA were killed, sent to gulags, and died of famine during FDR's leadership?

          I suspect you don't think that many people died as a result of the great depression

          And do you think that people died during the Holodomor?

        • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          if you’re not going to argue in good faith, then again I believe we are at an impasse.

          Unfortunately, I'm suspecting that whatever your sources are similarly aren't arguing in good faith, but since you won't provide them, I can't know for sure.

          While I do not consider “lib” nearly as much an insult as you likely intend it, I would still not categorize myself as such.

          I don't intend it as an insult, but if you're actually a socialist, I apologize. I hope though if you were, that you might consider that the US has a clear bias against socialism, so it's pretty hard to consider it a trustworthy source on this matter at face value. There's not a neutral party, but we should at least consider what the other side is saying instead of just blindly accepting the US government narrative.