• 🏳️‍⚧️Edward [it/its]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    So, if I got into my government and made them recognise the dust bowl as a genocide, does that make it a genocide? Do countries‒who care a lot more about politics than the truth‒get to say what is and isn’t a genocide?

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      1 year ago

      Okay, how about the guy who coined the term?

      Raphael Lemkin (a pioneer of genocide studies[79]: 35  who coined the term genocide, and an initiator of the Genocide Convention), James Mace, Norman Naimark, and Timothy Snyder have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Wikipedia as a source. Amazing.

        Here’s a challenge; find an academic work written by a serious historian after the opening of the Soviet archives that considers the 32-33 Soviet famine to be a deliberate genocide.

        And while you’re at it, go back and answer 新星’s question, which you are still dodging.

        Also, didn’t you say you weren’t interested in arguing about definitions?