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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mindslight on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:59AM (#46473834)
No need. We have ethnic cleansing at home. And in the true US MBA fashion, we outsource the mass graves to other countries.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:38AM (#46474176)
> 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.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by dragonwriter on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:43AM (#46474219)
> > 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.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:02AM (#46474331)
> 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?

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by dragonwriter on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:26AM (#46474982)
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.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mikkupikku on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:09AM (#46476167)
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.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by JumpCrisscross on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:44AM (#46475100)
> 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?

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by relaxing on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:01AM (#46478142)
> So removing non-white Hispanics from America would count?

Obviously that’s the argument put forth. Why phrase it as a question?

> What if the goal isn't to render the area ethnically homogenous?

A fair point, since a favorite argument of the regime and now protected legal doctrine is “the bad thing happened but it’s ok because we didn’t mean it like that”.

Except that doesn’t apply in this case since the goal is explicitly stated.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mindslight on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:17AM (#46478343)
How would you say steelmanning Republican policies and attempting to find common ground and compromise has been working out so far? Personally I was doing so up until ~June of 2020 and all I really got for it was a lot of grief with still no recognition that I understand and care about many of the things they claim to care about. And society wide? Well, here we are.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by SilverElfin on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:59AM (#46478880)
But it is being proposed. What do you think Elon is doing when he tweets support for remigration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration), which is literally ethnic cleansing? Or when the DHS posts memes in public proposing to deport 100 million people (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-100-million-deportations-...)? These are acts of ethnic cleansing being normalized before it actually happens. Let’s not ignore it. Instead, let’s vote out every single GOP politician that supports this or stays silent about it.