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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by xj9@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

i've seen this phrase used around here in a few variations and it rarely gets called out as problematic. i really don't think its ok so i thought i'd ask: does hexbear think its ok? i can understand and support the use of violence against fascists and colonizers, but genocide is really their thing. i don't see why it makes sense to use it even as a rhetorical device. why doesn't this get called out? is genocide so normalized in casual conversation that it doesn't register or what?

edit: ~~i have all the [he/him]s on the website telling me that this is actually a very funny joke. i still don't like it or get it, but i've had my fill of arguing with y'all so thanks for the info. i can see why nobody calls this one out. it kinda fucking sucks. i'll just go ahead and block people who post this type of joke and go on my merry way.~~

now that everyone has had a chance to chime in, i'm just going to add some context for y'all

  1. ~~most of the responses i got at first were from [he/him]s which is why i said the above. nothing against any gender, just what i saw.~~ it wasn't my intention to misgender anyone sorry if it came across that way. i really meant it as an observation of who was jumping in to reply at the start of the thread, but i didn't realize how it could be perceived in other contexts.
  2. i'm not american. i'm technically a US citizen, but i have much more significant cultural ties to SV, MX, and separately and to a lesser extent NA indigenous community. i don't always get where western people are coming from. i like the overall tone of hexbear maybe i just don't how imaginary genocide is supposed to be cathartic. i apologize if it came across like i'm trying to tone police y'all. that's really not my jam, but y'all do seem a little pre-disposed to getting offended when your little jokes are questioned.
  3. i still don't like the joke, so i'm going to remove them from my feed. if y'all don't have an issue with it that's fine. i was just trying to get a feel for what y'all think. the push back was a little upsetting after the day i had yesterday, but i'm over it now. i can live with curating my own experience based on my personal taste.
  4. i haven't been that articulate, but i think my feelings are best summarized by this reply:

As someone that does find the joke funny, upon some reflection i have realised that it is an inapropiate joke, genocide is a horrific thing and to make light of it by making it a subject of a joke is in bad taste the same way that jokes about sexual assault are in bad taste, we rightfuly look down on redditors for the latter but allow the former

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[-] iie@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the original meme was about communist banter being unhinged and socially unacceptable.

I think it resonates with us because it's relatable, we've all been the person holding their tongue at a family gathering. I also think it resonates as a reaction to the lopsided "colonizer deaths are a tragedy while colonized deaths are a footnote" tone-policing in western media (see Israel discourse). Also, a politics of violent revolution makes flippant humor inevitable, back in '73 people were joking about "spain's first astronaut" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Carrero_Blanco

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Spain's first astronaut is a hilarious bit btw and noticeably does not include jokes about genocide.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It also speaks to the insidious nature of discourse in the West.

Incivility of language is considered deeply uncouth, but electing leaders who have promised to do horrific things is perfectly fine, as long as they express it in acceptable language.

Biden sending billions to Ukrainian skinheads, continuing to build a wall, increasing police funding, doing nothing about COVID, gutting the child tax credit etc is all perfectly fine because he was polite and well spoken about it. Can't come out and say overtly you want Israel to turn Palestine into a graveyard, but aiming to help them achieve that is fine.

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

It's an inside joke. I'd never say it in public. That would make me look ridiculous.

edit: i have all the [he/him]s on the website telling me that this is actually a very funny joke. i still don't like it or get it, but i've had my fill of arguing with y'all so thanks for the info. i can see why nobody calls this one out. it kinda fucking sucks. i'll just go ahead and block people who post this type of joke and go on my merry way.

another poSSter down UNLIMTED GENOCIDE AGAINST THE LEMMY DOT FIRST WORLD lemmitor qin-shi-huangdi-fireball GLORY to the joint dictatorship of the posters of oppressed instances!! dprk-soldier

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

xi-plz yes

EDIT: Another session struggled, unlimited reeducation on the imperial core

[-] kot@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago
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[-] WalterBongjammin@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is a good point. Like most boomers, my socdem Dad used to browse Hexbear as part of his morning routine. Unfortunately he came upon a post using the offending phrase and now just posts 'so much for the tolerant left' under any article about Joe Biden on the Washington Post's website. Y'all need to reflect on this. If not for the sake of this website, but for the democrats reelection chances in 2024

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[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

edit: i have all the [he/him]s on the website telling me that this is actually a very funny joke. i still don't like it or get it, but i've had my fill of arguing with y'all so thanks for the info. i can see why nobody calls this one out. it kinda fucking sucks. i'll just go ahead and block people who post this type of joke and go on my merry way.

Asks a bunch of questions about a joke in askchapo

Gets mad at the people who respond

Adds an extremely mad edit

Includes a sideswipe at "he/hims" for some reason

Folks this person is clearly an expert in alienating rhetoric, so we might want to listen up as regards took-restraint

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

i genuinely don't get how the joke is supposed to be funny, but i also had a rough day yesterday. i've updated my post again. sorry.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Appreciate that comrade

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Yep. Being like "it's only da evil mens who disagree with me" is soft misgendering of quite a few people.

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

please see my new edit. i didn't mean to offend.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

"From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" and "Free Palestine" are being called genocidal statements. There's no point moderating our speech against the global north. As long as the global north maintains a stranglehold on global media and culture, anything we say that is adverse to their interests will be called genocidal.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nobody I know IRL talks the way people on hexbear talk and most people IRL here have at least 1 relative kidnappedand tortured by an US backed dictatorship. To me its just edgy shitposting.

[-] Lord_ofThe_FLIES@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

ACAB includes the tone police acab-2

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Don't be daft. Nobody actually wants unlimited genocide on the global north. We just enjoy saying unlimited genocide on the global north. In fact, it's very fun to say and you should try saying unlimited genocide on the global north more. Although if someone did truly want unlimited genocide on the global north they would probably get banned swiftly by our lovely mods who also enjoy saying unlimited genocide on the global north.

Mr. Evrart's helping me find my unlimited genocide on the global north...

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

because it's funny. associated with memes about JDPON and general posting in Maoist standard English

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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

geordi-no Genocide jokes.

geordi-yes Throwing Nazis in the pit jokes.

Genocide is of an ethnicity/nation/racial group of people's, and it's not okay to hurt people for the who they are or where they were born. Now people's choices that they make in sound mind is something that can be judged, harshly if their choice is to do something particularly heinous. For example, Nazis choose to hurt people because of traits that they cannot change; whereas the Nazi can change his ideals and choose to not hurt people. Therefore, throwing Nazis in the pit as they say you're the real Nazi is funny af.

wojak-nooo

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

On the scale of vote to qin-shi-huangdi-fireball, where does amerikkka and xi-plz fall?

I'm not shit posting on here to win hearts and minds. In the USian public, the reaction I get to telling people I'm a Marxist-Leninist is the same as I'd get shouting "anotha kkkracka down unlimited genocide on the first world" shrug-outta-hecks

[-] xj9@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

death to america

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.

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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it's not very funny but it does express a cathartic sentiment of hatred that few other phrases do. The hyperbole of it juxtaposed against certain minor infractions such as Wendy's having a twitter account sometimes makes me laugh.

Tbh, it's overused and low effort, and feels the same as when people here say 'another krakkker down', when they are a krakkker themselves. Pretty dweeby.

As far as offense caused by it goes, I don't really care. My people have been genocided before. By surname and blood I would be subjected to genocide again if anti-semitic Nazis had their way.

To call for a genocide upon the global northern states is practically akin to when pigs fly.

[-] CommieCretzl@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago
[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

I've never liked it, even as a meme. Remember, the First World is also a panopticon prison for the poor and minorities.

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[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's obviously not a good thing to say; it's the leftist version of fascists joking about helicopter rides or the day of the rope. Any normal person who hears it will write you off instantly. Genocide should be a red line for any leftist. "Oh it's a joke" -- not to people who don't have your specific vintage of internet brain poisoning. "I'm not saying it to normal people" -- you're posting it on a public forum.

This should be an easy one, but we're often contrarian to the point where we can't self-crit.

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