• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    It would be worth mentioning in this argument that Holocaust denialism reflects having an agenda of rehabilitating the image of the Nazis, just like frivolously asserting the presence of a genocide (which white supremacists frequently do, as you allude to with the South Africa example) serves its own agenda, frequently an exterminationist one. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

    I don’t think the Xinjiang genocide myth is being used for such a plainly exterminationist purpose like, for example, Israeli or Afrikaner claims about genocide are, but it still serves as an inflammatory causus belli against an other.