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[โ€“] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Dessalines is the one who made Lemmy. Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a genocidal maniac. Modern tankies like him because some of the targets of his genocide were slave owners.

Edit: manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml sent me a DM calling me a fascist for liking Rush lmfao

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I live not far away from a metro station called "Robespierre", and I don't think you could call him a nice guy. Context matters.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Context matters, but I'll go ahead and be a moral absolutist here and say that there is no context that justifies cutting children's heads off. Never heard of Robespierre, but if he was as bad as Dessalines, then I'd say he probably shouldn't have a metro station named after him

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The targets of his genocide were slave owners?

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