"Educate yourself on a subject" does not equal "reply to a social media comment". I said the latter was not worth one hour, not the former. This is an extremely bad faith response to what I said.

That hour long video you refuse to watch documents ethnic cleansing in great detail.

See the thing is you put it alongside five other sources which you also said showed ethnic cleansing, but they did nothing of the sort. As such I see no reason to believe you on this.

Here's a whole lecture you can watch on the problems that led to separatism

Yes, I know the Mearsheimer lecture. It is not about ethnic cleansing. So why are you bringing it up to back up your claim about ethnic cleansing?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Using cluster munitions” still does not equal “ethnic cleansing”

Nobody made the argument that simply using cluster munitions equals ethnic cleansing on its own.

Eastern Ukraine is not 100% ethnically Russian

It is predominantly ethnically Russian, and those are the people who are being targeted.

“Educate yourself on a subject” does not equal “reply to a social media comment”. I said the latter was not worth one hour, not the former. This is an extremely bad faith response to what I said.

Bad faith is arguing about something you have no understanding of and wasting everyone's time.

See the thing is you put it alongside five other sources which you also said showed ethnic cleansing, but they did nothing of the sort. As such I see no reason to believe you on this.

See this is what a bad faith argument looks like.

Yes, I know the Mearsheimer lecture. It is not about ethnic cleansing. So why are you bringing it up to back up your claim about ethnic cleansing?

Clearly you didn't watch the lecture if you need to ask that question as it clearly explains the demographics in Ukraine, and why eastern regions decided to separate which is the ethnic cleansing that western backed fascists started doing after the coup in 2014. They weren't hiding it either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aHWHqj8g7Bk

[–] Skua@kbin.earth -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nobody made the argument that simply using cluster munitions equals ethnic cleansing on its own.

Saying "they're doing ethnic cleansing" and backing it up with a link that's just "they're using cluster munitions" is literally exactly this

It is predominantly ethnically Russian, and those are the people who are being targeted.

The point I was making was that the only person who described themselves in terms of identity in that link called himself Ukrainian. This makes it very poor evidence for Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians.

Bad faith is arguing about something you have no understanding of and wasting everyone's time. See this is what a bad faith argument looks like.

What exactly do you think I'm trying to convince you of that I haven't been open and honest about? I said exactly why I do not think that that source is worth my time based on the five other sources you put it with and how you used them.

Clearly you didn't watch the lecture if you need to ask that question as it clearly explains the demographics in Ukraine

I know what the demographics are. I have watched Mearsheimer's lecture, but it really is not necessary to get an overview of something as basic as where different ethnicities are concentrated in Ukraine. The fact that there are a bunch of ethnic Russians living in that part is not evidence of ethnic cleansing by Ukraine. Neither is Russia feeling threatened by eastern European countries joining the EU or NATO.

the ethnic cleansing that western backed fascists started doing after the coup in 2014.

So your position is that the ethnic cleansing happened in the ~two months between Yanukovych fleeing Ukraine in February and the declarations of the DPR and LPR in April?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Saying “they’re doing ethnic cleansing” and backing it up with a link that’s just “they’re using cluster munitions” is literally exactly this

That's not what I did, and you just cherry picked this out of the sources I gave you.

The point I was making was that the only person who described themselves in terms of identity in that link called himself Ukrainian. This makes it very poor evidence for Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians.

Apparently you don't understand the difference between nationality and ethnicity.

The fact that there are a bunch of ethnic Russians living in that part is not evidence of ethnic cleansing by Ukraine.

The fact that people of Donbas rose up against the regime and have been fighting it for the past 8 years is proof of that.

So your position is that the ethnic cleansing happened in the ~two months between Yanukovych fleeing Ukraine in February and the declarations of the DPR and LPR in April?

No, but obviously all you know how to do is to make ridiculous straw man arguments.

I've said all I need to say here, and it's pretty clear that you're just going to keep regurgitating your talking points, so further discussion is not going to be productive. Bye.