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ziq wrote

quantum leap did it right. all new characters, same premise, same continuity but 30 years later, and the lead actor is just as likeable and earnest as sam was

BH90210 tried to do a curb your enthusiasm riff, same actors, but they're playing themselves instead of the fictional characters, and it was an interesting experiment

x-files didn't work because it turns out chris carter is a really bad writer and it was all the other writers who made that show good

picard didn't work because patrick stewart got creative control and sabotaged every story idea to make it as not star trek as possible, to the point where the writers all walked

saved by the bell brought back a couple of old characters overseeing a new cast. mario lopez and mark paul looked exactly the same as in the 90s so it worked

if they ever succeed in bringing sliders back i'd at least want quinn to be in it, and arturo in the pilot at least. that's a show that wasted all its potential because of meddling executives, so a reboot would be able to set things right

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

Genocide:

Genocide, defined in the genocide convention, modeled after the scholarship of Rafael Lemkin, refers to "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such."

Chomsky:

The vulgar politicization of the word “genocide,” now so extreme that I rarely use the word at all. The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it “genocide” so cheapens the word as to constitute virtual Holocaust denial, in my opinion. It amazes me that intelligent people cannot see that.

The Serbs intended to rid the land of Bosniak Muslims and finally managed to wipe out an entire town of them after a series of smaller massacres and systematic rapes starting in 1992. It meets the definition of genocide in every way. The only person who insists a genocide has to be exactly as bad as the Holocaust is Chomsky, and in doing so, he's denying all genocides that don't reach the numbers of the Holocaust and the American genocide.

Acknowledging the existence of different genocides than the Holocaust doesn't make someone a Holocaust denier, while insisting other genocides don't count as genocides because they didn't have as high a death count as the Holocaust IS genocide denial.

It's no different than when the far right claim the Holocaust was overblown and wasn't as bad as history records.

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