“Country founded on genocide does not support prosecution of genocide”
It’s really one thing for people in pre-modern times, especially pre WW2, to have engaged in what are now widely recognized as crimes against humanity.
It’s even worse when genocide is allowed today with the benefit of historical study.
There are people in pre-modern times that saw the horror of what was happening and did their best to fight against it. There were ex-settlers that chose to join the Native side of the struggle because they knew settlement and genocide was wrong, even if they didn’t really have the language for it yet. Hitler was inspired by the pre-WW2 actions in the Americas against the Native population.
Though I won’t argue that people today have even more benefit of hindsight - especially because we can see it happen live on the internet!
I have never felt more ashamed to be Canadian. In 2016, Canada had 220 thousand Lebanese-Canadians and 50 thousand Palestinian-Canadians. It feels like the complete alienation of the Arab community.
And 282 thousand Jews as of 2021. 🤔
He’s gotta dance on that tight rope. And if he loses balance, pipsqueak takes over and I’m sure you know how he feels about this issue.
I feel like people in these comments didn’t read the article or listen to the direct statements. Its a super political non-committal statement. If you wanted him to make a commitment about it being genocide, sure, I’d have been happy with what Singh was pushing for, a strong stance of siding with whatever the ICJ decided. But lets be clear, this isn’t a statement that whats going on isn’t genocide. And, frankly, whether it is genocide or not is murky. I lean towards yes, but I’m not any sort of domain expert. The ethnic cleansing and apartheid arguments are much stronger.
When discussing or qualifying genocide, we no longer require mass graves. What that means is that we take into account cultural and historic destruction as well.
Considering all the cultural and historical sites being destroyed as we speak, there is little in the way of meeting the acedemic requirement for the definition.
But certain politicians think cultural genocide isn’t really a thing, because they don’t really care about culture. Not saying the Canadian MP thinks like that, I’m just saying.