It’s not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.

  • @amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    When you massacre non-combatants, women, and children as factually did happen its genocide

    this is word for word what the French did to Haitians. that was the only genocide that ever happened during the Haitian Revolution. implying that racism against white colonizers is possible or if you’re a white supremacist claiming that resisting a Holocaust is akin to committing genocide is a genocide denier’s talking point.

    • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      51 day ago

      Of course racism is possible vs anyone it’s simply a word for pre judgement based on race. If Animus is based on what is actually happening right now it’s arguably not racism it’s simply a correct judgment call. The French as a group were at war with the Haitians but you still can’t morally slaughter non combatants.

      I hate the attempt to remove a definition of the word racism from the dictionary and replace its definition with something closer to systemic racism or oppression.

      What word then means prejudgements based on race?

      Of course the oppressed can’t oppress the oppressor but anyone can prejudge based on race which has been a valid definition of racism for a very long time.

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      41 day ago

      The Frenchs behavior was abhorrent but this doesn’t absolve anyone from the requirement to be moral themselves.

      Murdering women and children isn’t resisting genocide it’s just plain old genocide same as if we had put German civilians into their own ovens after ww2.

      Were those civilians complicit. Largely I feel that the answer is yes. But we are required to be moral ourselves even when faced with immorality.