Zagorath

Zagorath, 10 months ago

🙄

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Sleep well, genocidist.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

There’s a big difference between being upset at some difference in ideology and looking at people sincerely defending or denying a genocide in the name of that ideological difference.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Horseshoe theory doesn’t make sense. That’s the thing.

Until suddenly you start seeing people who call themselves leftists denying genocide. Which is something we usually think of as being a quality of the far-right.

(The obvious solution here, of course, is that these people who call themselves leftists…aren’t. Because if leftism is about equality, there’s nothing equal about subjecting a people and preventing the continuance of their culture.)

Zagorath, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

If you deny something that’s actually not a real thing, you’re not a genocide denialist. So…no.

I do love how tankies have such poor intellectual rigour that if someone calls them out on something they immediately jump to the worst possible straw man. It really undermines your case.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Where are leftists denying genocide? I’ve never heard a leftist deny a genocide, ever.

In Xinjiang province of China. That’s where.

But of course, if you define “genocide” as “thing that I’m willing to politically accept is a genocide”, it’s very easy to pretend someone isn’t a genocide denialist.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

you seem like you’re pretty supportive of the violent authoritarian USian regime

Where, precisely, did I suggest that at all?

Zagorath, 10 months ago

“Freedom of the press” is a joke

Yes, I know that’s what China believes. That’s why it’s so important.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

Oh, I see. I saw someone else make that same comparison just a minute ago.

I guess this is the new tanky line? Try and discredit the Uyghur genocide by pretending it’s equivalent to bullshit claims about a white genocide? Nice. Clever rhetoric. Shame you seem to have exposed the astroturfy nature of your movement so blatantly with your timing there.

Zagorath, 10 months ago

The technical term for quotation marks used that way is “scare quotes”.