• @TokenBoomerOP
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      321 year ago

      an organized massacre of helpless people

        • @InverseParallax
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          1 year ago

          Doesn’t have to be state backed, can be backed by a paramilitary group, etc.

          The key is its organized and has a power base. Oh, and it’s violent.

    • @sfgifz
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      301 year ago

      I thought its a typo for program or something, turns out it’s a real word:

      A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group

    • livus
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      @shasta technically speaking it’s organized violent persecution of an ethnic group. Historically has a more specific meaning as it originates in Russia.

      When the Russian Empire expanded and in the 19th century began to colonize /occupy territory that contained significant ethnic Jewish populations, they undertook a lot of rioting to lynch/massacre/expell them. These were known as “pogroms”.

      In modern English it means this kind of systematic attack against any ethnic group. It is also sometimes used informally/metaphorically for other things e.g. political or corporate “pogroms” against a particular group or class of people.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Essentially, (if my high school history had it correct) it’s an extreme form of violence designed to force a targeted people to leave the land they are living on. People used to use this term a lot more in older days (back in the 80s), but now we just use the term genocide since pogroms usually are an aspect of genocide - the Armenian Genocide, for instance, had a lot of pogroms going on. They are also a key aspect of settler-colonialism - which is how Palestinians ended up being one of the largest refugee populations in the world.

  • @coco
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    -141 year ago

    Wow

    Ret it more.

    We shall see bout Saudi decision