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I should probably check to see what South China Morning Post has to say about it. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why the heck are you getting downvoted? You're absolutely right, it didn't stop when we found out about it or when biden became president

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I guess people don't know that the UNs definition of genocide includes more than just killing a bunch of people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It looks like the closest thing the US is genociding is temporarily separating children from parents to ensure they're actually parents and not traffickers and to confirm their history.

Here's more for those wondering. It doesn't meet genocide definitions. It received major lashback when they did. A federal judge halted it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1218336878/immigration-family-separation-judge-settlement-border

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ4-VNaG3s&pp=ygURY2hhbm5lbCA1IG1pZ3JhbnQ%3D

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It does meet the UNs definition of genocide.

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

  1. Killing members of the group;
  2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's changed between when genocide was uncovered and now? What makes biden's policy less genocidal than trump's? Or have you always been a genocide denier, even when the concentration camps and their conditions first saw a bunch of coverage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EndlessApollo

What's changed between when genocide was uncovered and now? What makes biden's policy less genocidal than trump's? Or have you always been a genocide denier, even when the concentration camps and their conditions first saw a bunch of coverage?

I just root my understanding in reality and verifiable sauce. Like I did while nobody else followed suit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yuck. Have fun voting for trump ig if you hate hispanic immigrants that much