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Whatever a person's stance on ongoing political events or active conflicts, punishing them en masse for choosing to be born on the wrong side of an arbitrary bo
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
Whatever a person's stance on ongoing political events or active conflicts, punishing them en masse for choosing to be born on the wrong side of an arbitrary border is nonsensical.
- cpursley 3y agoAnd it’s antithetical to western values. Historically, we don’t do collective punishment - yet here we are.
- throw-ru-938 3y agoI'm sorry but having observed this since 24/02, collective punishment is very much part of the actual Western values. (Disclaimer: I'm a Russian émigré, not in the West myself but have friends there.)
- pphysch 3y agoEthnic cleansing of North America, Slave codes, yellow peril, Japanese internment, red scare, islamophobia, red scare 2.0 (ongoing), yellow peril 2.0 (ongoing) And that's just USA. What is "historically" supposed to mean here?
- mcpackieh 3y ago> Historically, we don’t do collective punishment Of course we do. We regularly sanction countries in ways which are designed to pressure the civilian population into overthrowing their government.