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dceiver.bsky.social • 9 days ago

congratulations to everyone who did not write this

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-indians-and-pakistanis-can-relocate-why-cant-gazans-refugees-displacement-palestinians-39d7678c?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

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mickeg.bsky.social•8 days ago

What, and I don’t say this lightly, the fuck?

readingman.bsky.social•9 days ago

Omg, this is literally "there's been plenty of genocides before, so why not have another?"

rebeccafachner.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank you. I’m glad I’m not this moronic

vjmcdonnell.bsky.social•9 days ago

We have nuked cities before so why not again......

authorleigh.bsky.social•9 days ago

One of Trump’s admirers,
or AI trained on MAGA news

realchrispeterson.bsky.social•9 days ago

I have no knowledge of how the partition of India and Pakistan went. I assume from this headline that it went very smoothly and peacefully.

realchrispeterson.bsky.social•9 days ago

He should have really gone for it and used Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge as an example of population movement.

redelvisfan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hundreds of thousands if not millions dead reduced to “Just browse Zillow!”

calexander.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’m speechless

fancypantsnance.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don’t want to click it. Who wrote it please.

ojelibom.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sadanand-dhume

lilhistorian.bsky.social•8 days ago

American Enterprise Institute

ojelibom.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yep

mattfield.bsky.social•9 days ago

“There are plenty of examples from the 20th century…” …and almost every single one was an ill conceived and unmitigated disaster that continues to cause issues to this day

thomasbanacek.bsky.social•9 days ago

What do you mean? Turkey and Greece are now the bestest of friends! 🤷🏾‍♂️

lilhistorian.bsky.social•8 days ago

So are India and Pakistan, BFFs.

cullenhendrix.bsky.social•9 days ago

I wonder how this went down at the dinner table last night - his wife is dean of the Elliott School.

barryd.bsky.social•8 days ago

Probably quite well. He's AEI/WSJ; she's big shot in academia.

alexdel.bsky.social•9 days ago

Alternate title: In Defense of Ethnic Cleansing.

alexdel.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean, the Cherokee had to move, so how bad could it possibly be?

latenac.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks, pretty sure it was less than the least I could do.

ehansen.io•9 days ago

Completing ignoring the point that they shouldn’t have to?

dceiver.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean it's all right there

rednecklefty.bsky.social•8 days ago

A line worthy of @dril.bsky.social? "Population transfers are not a Trump innovation"
My love and admiration goes out to the editorial board and all of their flunkies for this.

urgent-penguin.bsky.social•9 days ago

Wall Street Journal.."Normalizing genocide for 136 years".

charliemas.bsky.social•8 days ago

"Population transfers aren’t a Trump innovation. There are plenty of examples from the 20th century."

And all of them are ethnic cleansing.

The Wall Street Journal is straight up advocating for a crime against humanity.

atomicovermind.bsky.social•9 days ago

Pretty happy about the fact I didn't, TBH. Go me.

tomlavan.bsky.social•8 days ago

The funniest part comes in paragraph 2 where he tried to buttress his argument by citing the fact that Germans were booted from Czechoslovakia and Russia after WW2. Gee I wonder why Czechs and Russians weren’t super interested in having Germans in their midst after BEING INVADED BY THEM.

andkenbrbr.bsky.social•8 days ago

But even the expulsion of the Germans was bad and awful. Most of these regions never fully recovered, and at best it was collective punishment, banned by international law.

tomlavan.bsky.social•8 days ago

I totally agree with you - sign of making a bad argument when your second paragraph is like “well the Germans invaded everyone and they got brutally resettled so…🤷‍♂️”

lilhistorian.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hundreds of thousands were murdered during India/Pakistan partition. Did that get even a brief mention?
Did they include Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto "relocated"? Just wondering.

lilhistorian.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute, so that explains it.

drjengunter.bsky.social•9 days ago

What the…

brianlane.bsky.social•8 days ago

Population transfers? Holy crap.

bcdreyer.social•9 days ago

what in the literal f

bjgt.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is shocking and shameful, and I refuse to even read his twisted, vile words

spvcevvitch.bsky.social•9 days ago

They.....they can't be talking about Partition...can they?! They can't be fucking serious...

harryfinch.bsky.social•9 days ago

We do this all the time. It's just one more little crime against humanity. In the immortal words of Pat Paulson, 'Picky, picky, picky.'

lids.bsky.social•8 days ago

These fucking Nazis

heatherirobundamd.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is disgusting

batti3.bsky.social•8 days ago

Dafuq did WSJ just condone?!?

edenawrites.bsky.social•9 days ago

*Screams in 10th grade World History*

doubleharold.bsky.social•8 days ago

Whoever wrote this should be followed around by a nun with a shame bell for three weeks at least.

barryd.bsky.social•8 days ago

You misspelled 'splintery ruler'.

gravitybreak.media•9 days ago

we are living in a fucking Time right now. the fact that stuff like this is getting published shows the moment we're in. our only advantage is that we know this has happened before in history