I briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.

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Dilettante_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Making a joke about something is not necessarily "making light of it". It can be a way for an individual or culture to approach and digest a topic that is too difficult or painful to engage with directly.

First responders and medical professionals famously often have a sense of humor too dark to use around outsiders without causing offence/outrage(like what happened here), but I'm quite sure they are not "making light" of the loss of life and terrible injuries they face and fight.

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klipt 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

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slybot 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm

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immibis 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Both of those are genocide, and both of those are ethnic cleansing, and what's the relevance of the other one and why did you even bring it up?

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qubex 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.

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pessimizer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Only if you didn't read it, and just assign random opinions that you don't like to people who seem to disagree with your characterizations of things. Extremely twitter-brained.

No, saying that the Armenian genocide wasn't just "ethnic cleansing" isn't "a great example of whataboutism."

	▲	slybot 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.

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jojobas 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh fuck off. My grandfather survived the Nazi occupation in southern Russia, was playing Hitler in the school theater comedy some 5 years later.