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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by bulletsvshumans on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:49PM (#27045211)
In the case of Cambodia, I think the connection being suggested is that the genocide targeted "professionals and intellectuals"[0], essentially the bourgeoisie, or the wealthy (it was a communist revolution). So criticizing inequality is being framed as a slippery slope to killing rich people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by pedrosbmartins on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:26PM (#27045481)
Well, I'd argue that the gap between making racist remarks and committing greater acts of racism is a bit smaller than the one between criticizing inequality and emulating the mass genocide of a communist regime. Although the other OP did bring up the Nazis, so I see where he was coming from.
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