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[purple is browsing the Wikipedia page "Mass killings under communist states"]
Very informative page, I can't wait to learn more on this topic and the history of the world in general
[purple is asking a question]
So I'm assuming you've got similar articles for mass killings under capitalist, or fascist, or colonial states, right?
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https://thebad.website/comic/wpneutral_point_of_view
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6 Comments
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 11d
Kind of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_mass_killings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism_and_genocide
Bad@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 11d
Kind of is good, Wikipedia is a great projet overall, but in this case I consider kind of to not be enough.
I am myself caught in years of back and forth conversations that are going absolutely nowhere on the talk page of Mass killings under communist states talk page (60+ pages of archives!!!), so I made this comic as a way to kick the beehive a bit.
The conclusion so far is that this page is not really justified since other equivalent pages don't exist. It has a heap of warnings at the top and a bunch of it is dedicated to explaining why it's nonsensical, but there is no editorial consensus to actually get rid of it. Bit absurd.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 11d
There's certainly a page missing for capitalist genocides and I couldn't find a page that collates fascist genocides or rightwing dictatorship genocides, but what's "not enough" about the one about colonialist genocides?
Bad@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 11d
Genocides are only the surface of colonial crimes, it's barely touching the meat of the topic.
The mass killings under communist states page includes famines for example, there are no mentions of them on the colonialism and genocide pages. It's wholly incomplete and also an obscure page (40 views/day) compared to mass killings under communist states (250 views/day) due to having a lot less articles linking colonialism to genocide vs articles linking communism to mass killings.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 11d
Alright.
lemmysmash@piefed.social · 1 pts · 11d
So your proposal is to hide the crimes of one party just beacuse there's no page about the crimes of another party?