⚠️Disclaimer! I am not a denier or even questioner of any genocides I’m aware of!⚠️ I swear to fuck I am genuinely asking this question because I don’t know the answer, and using a search engine for something like this is only going to yield crackpot denier misinformation.
I have used the argument in the past, “If given all available evidence you’re still not sure a genocide is happening, you can probably safely assume that it is, because humans just constantly do genocide.”
And I wanted to be prepared in case whoever I’m debating says something like “well in 19XX, group A accused group B of genocide and it turns out group A was just lying to make group B look bad!”
Basically, would they be full of shit, or have humans been proven to have sunk that low too? :/
This doesn’t count as an answer to your question because aside from convincing 21st century whites living in first world countries, it’s kind of a hard thing to pull off.
But similarly, did you know there’s never been a act of geopolitical aggression that hasn’t employed the use of a variant of the Black Legend? Think about it.
“The Jews were invading and subverting our governments because they have no homeland”
“Native Americans eat people, we HAVE to colonize them”
“The Moors are invading Spain, if we don’t retake the holy land they’ll never stop pushing us out of our homes”
“The Chinese will never grow up to be big and strong unless they buy enough opium”
“Gazans are a threat to the state of Israel, their religion is incompatible with us”
Kind of crazy to think that for a tactic as old as the human race, it never really gets called out when people in modern day just say it with their whole mouth.
Thank you for the introduction to a new term!
You’re welcome, but I was mistaken. Black legend is just referring to when the Spanish did it to Americans. The acutel term is called Casus Belli as seen in another commenter’s Wikipedia link to Putin’s claims about the Donbas region