There is a coup occurring now

  • fuzzy_ad@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Ok so if you arrest people that are illegally in your country and put them in jail, when does it become a genocide?

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      When you’re targeting them not because of their legal status, but because of their ethnicity.

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t enjoy flippantly using words like fascist and nazi and genocide and coup. It’s all word games.

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          2 hours ago

          I also don’t enjoy using words like fascist and Nazi and genocide and coup, and will happily stop using them when they stop being relevant and accurate

          Unfortunately, they are accurate and relevant, so I guess I’m stuck using those words