Thread:ChocoMingo/@comment-35183725-20200401234113/@comment-38073745-20200402170139

Okay so, me, a Chinese Malaysian, who lost family members and had others tortured, mutilated and raped during the British military campaign in the country that resulted in locking up more than 500,000 ethnic Chinese in concentration camps called, burning farmland to starve rural areas of food, executing entire villages and nowadays these crimes are regarded by both governments of Malaysia and UK as “necessary for the future”, feel absolutely bad with anti-communism being widely spread in Malaysiaball article that either mocks or doesn’t mention at all the suffering more than 20% of the population experienced, yeah guys it’s not just about “removing commies”. While this is not taken serious in that article, I’m pretty sure if I removed some parts of the text or made it look ironic the same way in the article of Soviet Unionball or Chinaball, I would end up blocked.

Will you treat with the same severity you treat others if some Malaysian spreads anti-communism downplaying the events that formed his country? Like one certain guy was doing here for probably many years and nobody seemed to bat an eye? Yes he managed to be blocked yesterday, but not by anyone here. Nobody here was furious at him for denying genocide Ottomans committed against Armenians, the persecution against the Alawite minority of Syria and making many anti-Shiite comments the way you are when someone presents a different version of the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Would you really mind it and treat the downplaying of events like the Blood Sunday or the Venezuelan Caracazo where more than 200 people were killed with the same severity you do when someone offers an alternative version to the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

The Wikipedia also doesn’t officially regards the genocide in Congo sponsored by the Belgians in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century where more than 10 million people died because of their policies as an official “genocide”. Instesd, as atrocities just, yeah atrocities like those who happen everyday. The Japanese genocide against Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos during its occupation of their countries is also not officially regarded as a “genocide” according to Wikipedia. Even though also more than 10 million people lost their lives in a series of campaigns of extermination conduced by the Japanese.

Nobody here is downplaying with the lives lost by people in different events, that’s not the objective of the area of study known as historiography.

Beside it, every article in Wikipedia that presents such an event officially portrayed as a genocide/massacre/atrocity has also a section for criticism and counter arguments, because they practice the exercise of historiography and historicity there. So if your argument is based on Wikipedia, they actually accept opposing versions and are open to debate, they don't go around banning everyone who says the other way around, there you can contest or request such a classification for different events. Of course people who can’t argue and “shitpost” about it will end up getting blocked and deserving so.

Excuse me, am I being toxic for trying to dialogue with you? I hope I’m not. I’m since 2017 having constructive arguments with different people around Fandom and nobody so far blocked me for it. I don’t have interest in arguing here specifically or filling comment sections with drama, I participated in arguments here once and the level of answers I received made me lost the interest in debating.

All I’m trying to find here is a reason other than personal feelings for why you guys blocked my friend. It seems like you have cherry picked events that you care more than others and few tolerance with historicity, buzzwording it as “genocide denial”. Remember, nobody here is downplaying with the fact people’s lives were lost.

Also this guy from the FB server said no one of you was concerned when the great Irish famine was been downplayed. Just to make clear I absolutely disagree with the language used by him and I don’t know if what he is saying is true also. Can you confirm it? Do you recognize him?