Anonymous #1 9w

Ethnic cleansing can target more than one group at a time, i agree I wouldnt quite call it that yet but thats poor reasoning and we are 1000% headed in that direction if whats currently happening/planned doesnt stop

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Anonymous #3 9w

When would mass deportation become ethnic cleansing?

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Anonymous OP 9w

If it is applied widely enough that it begins to actively make that ethnicity less common, particularly if it’s applied regardless of immigration status. I think a good metric for this case would be widespread deportation of legal immigrants of certain ethnic groups and the telltale indicator would be widespread deportation of citizens based on ethnicity alone.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Why is the deportation of legal immigrants a better standard for determining whether or not what the Trump administration is engaging in ethnic cleansing?

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Anonymous OP 9w

Because in this particular context ethnic cleansing can’t be effective if it is only applied against illegal immigrants. That’s the thing which makes it ethnic cleansing, it’s about trying to rid everyone of that ethnicity. I think the illegal immigration crackdowns are driven by the same racism and xenophobia as ethnic cleansing, but it hasn’t yet reached that state if legal immigrants and citizens of that ethnicity aren’t being deported at a large scale.

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Anonymous #3 9w

“Illegal immigrants” isn’t an ethnicity. The illegal immigrants being targeted tend to be from certain ethnicities and white illegal immigrants aren’t being targeted as much, but ethnic cleansing has to be facilitating ethnic homogeneity. This could not be achieved in the United States unless legal immigrants and citizens of the target ethnicities are also deported en masse.

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Anonymous #3 9w

I would describe what is happening now as an alarm bell but it is not true ethnic cleansing

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