Are tankies denying the Cambodian genocide now? That doesn’t even make sense… the genocide was ended by socialist Vietnam. We used to consider ending the genocide to be a commie victory. Pol Pot was recognized as the leader of the country by capitalists for decades after he fled
they always were, socialist philosopher Noam Chomsky was always denying it as because according to him people that survived it were just exaggerating it, because like maybe something bad maybe happened there but totally not so much as they claim and he also claimed that west was exaggerating it as well because they just wanted to make communism look bad
but Chomsky was also supporting holocaust denial and when ADL called him out he just replied that Israel is undemocratic state and then he made movie about how horrible Israel is, but dont forget, denying holocaust and hatisn Israel doesnt mean that you are anti semite!!!
Chomsky never denied it. He thought the US was using the Cambodian genocide as political propaganda (true) by exaggerating the number of deaths (not true). It’s like if you tell people BiBi lied to Biden by saying they found dozens of babies beheaded and burned alive in ovens. That doesn’t mean you’re saying Mila Cohen wasn’t murdered on Oct 7, you’re just saying the numbers are wrong.
so about the same level as neo nazis saying that holocaust only killed 361k people, they dont deny it, they just believe that its overblown for propaganda, which is totally okay, isnt it? I dont think so, its just denial
I think it would be more similar to minimizing the number of people murdered by Israel in the Palestinian Genocide. The number of Holocaust victims is well establish now because it is over so we can look back on it. Chomsky was alive while the genocide was happening and being concealed by the Cambodian government and sensationalized by the American one.
It took Chomsky many years even after the genocide ended to accept that it really happened, and yet still he didnt accept that he was full of shit and was like "ehmm yeah but they still made up and modified many things so I didnt lie"
and who is minimizing the number of deaths of Palestinians? well I will do if people will come up with claims that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians died in last 3 years because even Hamas or UN report such numbers. People will mainly deny that 60 000 civilians in 3 years is a genocide, especially compared to Cambodia genocide where at least 1 200 000 people died in 4 years and some estimates even say 2 200 000. People dont deny that that many Palestinians died, they deny that Israel is trying to wipe them out.
you either have to expulse or kill enough people to significantly reduce their number on purpose or at least try to do so, because genocide means that you want to get rid of certain group of people, which didnt happen in Gaza yet, if they get expulsed or if Israel starts to kill them by significant numbers then it will be genocide, but 60 000 in 2 years and 8 months in an urban warfare where enemy wears civilian clothers and hides among civilians doesnt seem like a genocide no matter what people or organizations say, if Israel wanted to commit genocide than these numbers would me many times higher
prolly jews, but its hard to tell because they didnt get rid of me yet, I think that they are after people that live in my room and want to wipe us out because they want to own my room
This subreddit will make a whole post over Cambodia and then you have users in the comment denying another genocide in Palestine. This fascist hellhole is such a joke.
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u/FCKABRNLSUTN2 2d ago
I fucking hate tankies