So, wait- this… individual… believes that a genocide isn’t a genocide until they ACTUALLY obliterate a people?!? Think of all their ancestors, evolving up from protein chains to hominids to humans down generations to a poor couple who smiled at their baby with no idea it’d turn out to be this dumb.

And his articles make him seem like such a normal guy!

These rotten people want genocide defined as something that happened in the past. Anyone still left alive? Not yet a genocide. Lurking behind their argument: the Holocaust left lots of Jews alive. They wouldn't have called it a genocide until the end of the war, and even then, only a "failed" one.

The sociopathy and argument are both aptly comparable to

I would love to punch that guy in the face.

Incredible poster

'Genocide' is a stupid term and it comes down to how Samantha Power feels today. But if you read the UN definition on genocide, yeah this is a genocide.

If you agree the Armenian genocide/Srebrenica/Yazidi extermination are genocides you can gecognize the destruction of Gaza as a genocide.

Also Eric: "The Aboriginal children loved the Residential Schools. Right up until they died of course!"

I saw that earlier, and I had to just ignore it. Not in the mood to get suspended again. Not this close to the weekend.

"Once in conservative media" in his bio really checks out

Most normal conservative journalist

I think his old Twitter bio specified co-founding the Daily Caller with Tucker Carlson. Not sure why he changed it...

that line delivery is in my head way too much. way too fucking much...

Quibbling over the exact details of when wholesale slaughter becomes genocide is as morally bankrupt as it gets.

More people need to learn to not engage, just Block.

The thing is, this is yet another bad faith technique people are employing to muck up the narrative. Here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter. Israel is murdering 10s of thousands of children in order to steal land. Anyone excusing that is ok with murdering 10s of thousands of children to steal land.

Look Brendel not everyone can be a winner. Some people need to exist only as a warning to others.

I don’t wonder anymore

I’m sure the people in Gaza are really concerned that correct language and definitions are used in discussions about what is being done to them.

This guy is the reason for the "mute" feature.

A satisfyingly easy choice to block. Sometimes I perseverate. Not on that one.

sometimes you what?

Get stuck on a thought, and consider it over and over.

He thinks about it, drags it out! Not a very common word in this century outside of psychology but he'd be allowed the points in Scrabble.

Ooh no don’t platform him, he’ll end up the next Trump admin pick

Don’t worry it’s just “an ethnic cleansing plan”, you’re being silly! Silly billy!

“Just an ethnic cleansing” would also be genocide! These peoples brains are so incredibly smooth

Getting a little silly from time to time is the difference between an ethnic cleansing and a genocide, I guess.

Good thing the phrase "in whole or in part" doesn't appear in the Convention, otherwise all sorts of intentional destruction of specific demographic population would fall under the label of genocide.

Almost like the framers intentionally wrote it broadly in order to compel its signatories to act to prevent a genocide's occurrence BEFORE you could count the dead in tens of thousands...

Anyways this is one of several baffling posts from this guy

Anyone with "dc" in their handle is one of the most insufferable people on the planet.

The saddest maybe funniest is his friends probably think he’s brilliant. Possibly he wants to end as many wars as IT.

I think it's just standard dumb guy stuff. Haiti is poor, DR is comparatively richer. > If the whole island was run like DR then the whole island would be rich. > DR should invade Haiti in order to run the whole island. No thoughts about anything outside of this child's idea of a series of events

Him, jerking off: It just makes sense logically. All the Dominicans need to do is switch their national focus to the air effort branch, tech into medium improved air frames and the island is theirs.

Oh if you think that's baffling, just ask him about how many bathrooms he has.

You don’t even need to ask him, he’ll make sure to tell you.

And if you find his answer to THAT offputting, ask him what kind of family is best.

To crush your siblings, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of your cousins?

Yeah, he blocked.

Pervert behavior

deeply unfuckable, really

Yikes

Seriously, ask him about the bathrooms. He’s been around for ages and his arguments often end with him bragging about how his house has eight or twelve or whatever bathrooms and demanding to know how many bathrooms YOU have.

He once got REALLY mad and cited the collective total number of bathrooms across all of his residential properties.

Does he need more fiber or less fiber in his diet? I’m not a medical professional so cannot weigh in on this.

Every room is a bathroom, you don't even have to try that hard.

Was it something I said?

Not enough bathrooms

Oddly British coded

Eric Owens is a turd.

It's not a genocide until they're finished, then you can only refer to it in the past tense.

I had to look up but ICC has it as the “intent to destroy in whole or in part…” So I would say a plan qualifies as an intent.

*Official* genocides specifically involve mass murder in an 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, everyone knows this.

Concepts of a plan

People who disagree with him are "goobers", to demonstrate just how seriously he takes all of this. bsky.app/profile/eric...

some people, if paid enough, lie enough, or so mentally detached from human empathy for someone they've never met or seen, utter apathy for everyone and anyone outside one's own life is a truly horrifying force of evil.

Ethnic cleansing isn't genocide is crazy work

Him: “Ethnic cleansing plans don’t exist.” Israel every few days: “The Arab children are future terrorists so deserve to be starved.”

"You are silly. Stop." The serious thoughtful person has posted

Not-so-fun fact: going by the UN definition (which you can take or leave but it's about as "official" a guideline as is available), not one person has to actually be killed or physically harmed to qualify as a genocide. If you do anything intending to harm a people or culture, it's genocide.

I wonder if people like Eric Owens existed before social media and social media just gives him a voice, or if social media has helped create Eric Owens.

I often wonder the same

What the fuck does he think the endgame of ethnic cleansing is???

Whew. Where do these people come from. Opinion 1: “As a conservative, I believe there is no genocide. None.” Opinion 2: “I believe squirrels should be routinely subjected to having their nests inspected for nut hoarding. It should be brusque and at their own expense, the free-loaders.”

Yeah how “silly” to see video after video of bombings on civilian refugees and emaciated toddlers and react with disgust and concern!

Absolutely A+ first sentence of a bio for a guy trying to make this argument.

they do this to regulate their emotional state, which raises the question "what emotional state requires regulation of this kind"

apparently it needs to be from the genocide region of hispaniola otherwise it's sparkling ethnic cleansing

I was briefly concerned that one of my favorite bass-baritones had gone off the deep end until I saw his profile picture

This started from the guy being mad that people were pointing to settler-colonialism as part of calling it a genocide. Apparently this dipshit doesn't know that even the guy who coined the term "genocide" explicitly referenced settler-colonialism as the prime example.

It's just sparkling war crimes? 🤡

this is like the third or fourth one of these guys who I've seen saying it's 'silly' to call it genocide. that just sems weirdly coincidental - as well as utterly dismissive, of course

It's not genocide, it's just ethnic cleansing with a side of war crimes. What an absolutely wild statement.

One of the myriad ways this site is better than Twitter is that I am made aware of the existence of absolute nitwit monsters at a much slower pace

Did you ever read that old WW2 manual for sabotage? Does this sound familiar?

Agreed. The utter inhumanity of the beliefs of my fellow humans is baffling. A lot of people seem to walk through life completely untouched by the world.

He's a "reasonable" conservative, so he knows how to lie in a way that tends to fool ordinary people and trolling with "not a genocide" posts seems to be good only joy in life.

Who the fuck let these people in?

jesus christ

these guys think this stuff is convincing to others because it convinced them. but they're in denial about what they needed convincing of. not that what's happening is good, but that THEY are. they support it and KNOW they're morally upright. whatever solves that equation must be mathematically true

Don’t want to even look at that cognitive dissonance, they feel uncomfortable and will avoid that at all costs.

or maybe i'm being too kind and they're just bloodthirsty inhuman dullards lying through their gnashing teeth in an effort to keep up appearances but i don't know why you'd bother saying anything at all instead of just kicking back and enjoying the slaughter

No I think you nailed it. The logic is as simple as: 1. Genocide is obviously bad 2. I don't think this is bad 3. Ergo...