Conservative political analysis seen floating around twitter.

Mohammad killed the entire population of the globe in his era (circa 600 CE). Now that’s impressive

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Are the Stalin death counts just all of the casualties (exaggerated) of the Russian civil war, but Stalin gets all of the blame and the antisemites get none of it? I never really understood how this works. All of the petty white Russian landlords, nobles, and bourgeoisie that had to be overthrown seem like they should be responsible.

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      Once upon a time, someone came up with a number and a (half-assed) justification, and since then every subsequent reteller has just added another million to it

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      and the antisemites get none of it?

      I have always found it strange that Westerners who criticize the White Army always seem to narrowly focus on the anti-Semitism of the reactionaries, completely ignoring or glossing over the atrocities committed against everyone else. Are the Slavic, Turkic, Roma, and Finno-Ugric peoples of the former Russian Empire considered less than human, or if not, why do they never seem to be included in Western estimates of the number of people killed, both by the Whites and by the Nazis?

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Often times they include all of the deaths of the eastern front of WW2 and will sometimes even go so far as to assume hypothetical children those people could have had and add them to the list as well.

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      The white army representing the moneyed classes are entitled to kill their lessers so their numbers don’t count per standard liberal cosmology

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      The already very unserious Black Book of Communism blames the Soviet Union for 20 million deaths. The Black Book was published in 1997, so the Soviet Union must have claimed another 42 millions deaths in the last 3 decades by no longer existing.

      It feels like the purpose of this slop is to make the other anticommunists seem more credible by comparison.