I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.

    • PhaseFour [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You are not denying a specific genocide. You were denying genocide as an agreed upon process, which is a form of genocide denial.

      This form of genocide denial is incredibly common in genocidal cultures, which we both live in. We have all been guilty of this form of genocide denial.

      It is often used to further genuinely genocidal aims, so I think we need to be more willing to name it and combat it.

        • PhaseFour [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          No. Genocide is a historical process by which one faction of a population exterminates another. It is a specific social phenomenon which has objective characteristics that are necessary to function [1]

          Also, genocide produces an imperative for other countries to intervene. As a result, warping the definition of genocide is a tool that imperialist nations use for invasion. In most cases, when the definition of genocide is warped in imperialist society, it is used to further imperialism and actual genocide.

          There are obvious exceptions, e.g. the US denial of the early Holocaust. However, if the scientific method for identifying a genocide was used in the US given the evidence at the time, then one would correctly identified it as a genocide. The problem was that the US capital was heavily invested in Nazi Germany.

          A strict adherence to the scientific method for identifying a genocide is the only way to prevent genocide denialism.