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celebratedrecluse wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by Amorphous in Real socialism! by ziq

There are many massacres on that list you could read about from the 20th century too, which are obviously relevant to this discussion. it is an encyclopedia so it has a lot of information grouped together, so this reply is both condescending and a clear deflection from discussing it.

what this signals to me is that you are not desiring to do so, which means that if you were to engage you are aware that you might feel obliged to defend or justify some of these actions, and so you wish to retain deniability about this by not directly talking about it.

If I am just way off mark here, by all means, let's discuss some of specifics. Here are some which seem particularly upsetting from that list, but i am curious your point of view. CW genocide, of course:

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