So far historically it was “they’re not Christians”, then it was “wrong location” (cause they wanted the land/resources), then it was “they’re not the right race”, then it was “wrong economic system”, and now it’s “wrong culture”; what’s next do you think?
EDIT: By justifiable I don’t mean it’s actually justifiable, I mean most people will consider it justifiable.
To protect the treats
I’m not kidding at all
The open embrace of imperial violence to maintain one’s own personal lifestyle will be an increasingly popular position as material conditions deteriorate: Treatlerism
I’d argue this is the third tenet of the evergreen “life, liberty, and ‘the pursuit of happiness’”
The pursuit of my happiness even at the cost of your life and liberty
Basically the justification for bombing Yemen, “they’re threatening the sea lanes and international shipping!!”
Nevermind that they are doing a targeted embargo to stop a literal genocide, the specter of treat stoppage is used as justification for violence in response.
They’re sitting on all “our” clean water.
This one is also my guess. Water and viable farmland.
“They make the nation weak” will be for targeting internal minorities, and we’ll use the regular “sorry, wrong race” when fighting Russia and China. In other words, same as always.
“their trans ideology will corrupt the kids!”
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there isn’t enough food and water
Never mind why
“We did the last one and things ended up fine for us.”
They won’t need a reason.
I vote for genocide on all the liberals who posted trolley memes in the last few months.
“Lifeboat Ethics” probably wont be in full swing until the late 2030s, and the West definitely has a few genocides it can do before then…
Probably “FAFO” “only 60% of them voted for Democrats” “I didn’t see them care at all when The Ukranian Genocide was happening in 2022”
It’s really always just us vs. them. That principle encapsulates all the reasons you listed.
Our benevolent humanitarian intervention vs. their unprovoked, brutal war of aggression. It’s really just the meme.
We always mean good, they are pure evil, so we had to kill them all. We didn’t intend to kill all those women and children, it’s their fault.
What’s amazing is how many people actually, really believe that, even with college degrees and all that.
Because Xi finally hears our prayers:
if a bird flu epidemic coincides with the mass deportations it might happen extremely soon, sorry the vaccines have to go to real amerikkkans and also you must be deported during an epidemic just how things are
I think it all follows the same structure. There’s an imagined wholeness and peace that was beset by something alien, eliminating that alien threat will get us back to how things were. In case of Israel for example, things were great before October 7th and then something was introduced and we need to eliminate it. The imagined wholeness is always a fascistic nostalgia for a state that never was, and the alien threat element is a scapegoat for the problems they don’t wanna face. Genocide is the fascistic structure taken to its limit. We find this now in Trump’s rhetoric about how things were great before the alien emigrants and how getting rid of them will turn us into this imagined state of wholeness and belonging, it’s always scapegoating and focusing internal issues on one group in order to avoid facing them.
“for science!” Is the justification for desecrating Hawaiian sacred sites in Hawaii
i think that there’s still plenty of mileage left on the good old fashioned “they’re terrorists” excuse that worked this time around.
