Comment by dragonwriter
6 days ago
> > We have ethnic cleansing at home
> We really do not. And if we want to keep it that way, blurring the lines with this term is something we absolutely should not do like this.
We really do, and if we want not to, we need to address it rather than denying it.
> We really do, and if we want not to, we need to address it rather than denying it
What are we doing that constitutes the mass expulsion and killing of an ethnic or religious group in America?
Ethnic Cleansing is a policy of rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area. You seem to be using a commonly cited inaccurate definition of genocide instead of the broader term “ethnic cleansing”, but note that even genocide does not require killing as the means, as it is defined (in the 1948 Genocide Convention) as any combination of one or more of seven different acts (one of which is killing members of the group) when undertaken with the specific intent to destroy the given racial, ethnic, national, or religious group.
TIL that neighborhood crime causing white flight is actually ethnic cleansing.
No, that's probably not ethnic cleansing, since the white people who fled to the suburbs were in a position of privilege and wanted to give up their homes. The American government practices ethnic cleansing, as you assert, so and for some reason they just made it illegal to do it in their own cities for the benifit of the most privileged ethnic demographic. Perplexing.
> Ethnic Cleansing is a policy of rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area
So removing non-white Hispanics from America would count? What if the goal isn't to render the area ethnically homogenous?
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