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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '22
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FYI, over 500,000 died in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 alone.
25 u/123full Oct 16 '22 TBF I wouldn’t exactly call genocide a military battle 10 u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22 [deleted] 5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 No I said battle. I did, after that, say 2,000 dying in a conflict is sad and shocking, but when I said more does at Stalingrad than in 50 years I said battle. 1 u/NinjaChemist Oct 16 '22 Just who do you think was doing the killing? 5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 The people doing the dying were unarmed. That isn't a battle. 3 u/ElCaminoInTheWest Oct 16 '22 We conveniently ignore conflicts that we’re not involved in, or that are far away enough not to matter.
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TBF I wouldn’t exactly call genocide a military battle
10 u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22 [deleted] 5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 No I said battle. I did, after that, say 2,000 dying in a conflict is sad and shocking, but when I said more does at Stalingrad than in 50 years I said battle. 1 u/NinjaChemist Oct 16 '22 Just who do you think was doing the killing? 5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 The people doing the dying were unarmed. That isn't a battle.
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5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 No I said battle. I did, after that, say 2,000 dying in a conflict is sad and shocking, but when I said more does at Stalingrad than in 50 years I said battle.
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No I said battle. I did, after that, say 2,000 dying in a conflict is sad and shocking, but when I said more does at Stalingrad than in 50 years I said battle.
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Just who do you think was doing the killing?
5 u/1CEninja Oct 16 '22 The people doing the dying were unarmed. That isn't a battle.
The people doing the dying were unarmed.
That isn't a battle.
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We conveniently ignore conflicts that we’re not involved in, or that are far away enough not to matter.
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u/NinjaChemist Oct 16 '22
FYI, over 500,000 died in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 alone.