So far historically it was “they’re not Christians”, then it was “wrong location” (cause they wanted the land/resources), then it was “they’re not the right race”, then it was “wrong economic system”, and now it’s “wrong culture”; what’s next do you think?

EDIT: By justifiable I don’t mean it’s actually justifiable, I mean most people will consider it justifiable.

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    I vote for genocide on all the liberals who posted trolley memes in the last few months.

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    In order of most likely/immidiate:

    Invade Mexico to secure the border and fight the cartel, in reality just an excuse to round up everyone who doesn’t speak English in a Guantanamo 2.0 right on the border while doing the same obama-drone on random Mexican schools and bars/markets “owned by the cartel” or some shit.

    Next if somehow US goes to war with China you can absolutely expect Asian concentration camps.

    Then inevitably I don’t see the US surviving climate change without doing the whole “cleaning the cities” first. At first it will be homeless and drug addicts. Then it will be LGBTQ and in the end it will be camps for climate migrants between states e.g Florida.

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    Plenty of Christians in Gaza, so these Christian Nationalists have a different justification. We all know this, but I guess the pedant [or person who screamed at his dad who was really chill with a hospital getting bombed] in me feels the need to point this out.

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      I think they were potentially referring to Native or Indigenous American genocides in the Americas. When the Spanish and Portuguese Catholics came they justified enslaving and genociding the natives under the justification from the Spanish monarch at the time that basically Catholics (interestingly of any race/ethnic group) were not allowed to suffer under slavery or be slaughtered… but non-Catholics weren’t protected under this decree/law/whatever it was.

      This actually is credited with the “invention” of racism as we know it now days. If anyone could theoretically convert to Catholicism and escape slavery, that was bad for the slavers. So they slowly moved over to a race-based, ethnicity-based system of chattel slavery where one’s ancestry determined one’s place in the world forever with no chance of upward mobility. Obviously the English and other first European settlers in what became the United States took the racism to the inevitable maximum endpoint and now over 150 years out from the formal abolishment of chattel slavery the effects of the racist systems still remain.

      Anyway, I think if the reference was to Gaza or Palestine the more correct statement would be “because they aren’t Jewish.” Because that’s ultimately the “problem” for the state of Israel and their pursuit of a permanent Jewish ethnic/religious majority. Palestinians could believe in Hinduism or Christianity or whatever else but at the end of the day the “issue” is they aren’t Jewish. Just like white supremacists are concerned only with white/non-white dynamics. Acknowledging this also demonstrates why the “it’s an ancient war!” idiots are dead wrong. Well, another way of demonstrating that fact. It has nothing to do with what they are and everything to do with what they are not. Again, the same as white supremacy. You’re either white or you aren’t. You’re in the protected oppressor group or you aren’t

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    “Lifeboat Ethics” probably wont be in full swing until the late 2030s, and the West definitely has a few genocides it can do before then…

    Probably “FAFO” “only 60% of them voted for Democrats” “I didn’t see them care at all when The Ukranian Genocide was happening in 2022”

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    “They make the nation weak” will be for targeting internal minorities, and we’ll use the regular “sorry, wrong race” when fighting Russia and China. In other words, same as always.

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    if a bird flu epidemic coincides with the mass deportations it might happen extremely soon, sorry the vaccines have to go to real amerikkkans and also you must be deported during an epidemic just how things are

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    To protect the treats

    I’m not kidding at all

    The open embrace of imperial violence to maintain one’s own personal lifestyle will be an increasingly popular position as material conditions deteriorate: Treatlerism

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    i think that there’s still plenty of mileage left on the good old fashioned “they’re terrorists” excuse that worked this time around.