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Additionally, "Mass deportation" is a fucking genocide, I don't know how this can even be said loudly. Guess people never learn...
It’s not in any way genocide. How do you figure that it is?
Pretty much any time in human history where someone has tried to displace that many people, they've either failed or it turned into an ethnic cleansing.
Rounding up people based on their ethnicity usually goes poorly
This wouldn’t be rounding people up based on their ethnicity.
Instead:
So in the same way that a government could have a policy like
this would be a policy like
So no, this isn’t in any way like rounding people up (ie performing a dragnet across all of society to ferret people out) based on ethnicity. Like, at all.
Are you saying that you believe that mass deportation would turn into mass murder?
Just look at history, Germany tried to deport hundreds of thousands of Jews before the extermination camps were built.
Let's say you suddenly got yanked from your home and sent to live in the land of your ancestors (where you don't have a home or any friends). Would you survive?
If yes, ask yourself again, but now you're broke and have a medical condition and you require medication to survive. How about now?
These people getting deported don't have 2nd homes they can return to, and they can't just put one on a credit card.
Don't like homelessness? Mass deportation creates homelessness crises.
Is it being proposed that people be yanked from their homes?
What do you think mass deportation means?
Free lollipops?
Read a wiki.
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