【Text/Observer Network Columnist Yan Mo】
After Biden accused Russia of "genocide" in Ukraine, "genocide" is mutating, and American public opinion follows this witch hunt idea, so that this moral virus begins to accelerate the mutation. It pointed to Burma the day before yesterday, to Xinjiang yesterday, to Russia today, and the new American dogma is being weaponized, regularized, and targeted.
Saying "genocide is mutating" has two meanings. One: Commentators conclude that the modern "pattern of genocide" has quietly changed, a term that used to be directed at "mass death" as a criterion, but has now been mutated as "mass trauma." In the vernacular, trauma is enough to constitute extermination, and not dead is also a capital offense.
Second: Following the above, as the line of interpretation expands, the "definition of genocide" (Note 1) is also mutating, and American moral indicators are evolving into more pervasive viruses.
The catalyst for the variant is undoubtedly the "Bucha Incident", which, judging from the results, was a turning point in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and a "major victory" for the United States.
Judging from the incident itself, even anti-Russian public opinion, many are highly suspicious of the appearance of the "Russian massacre", questioning the Ukrainian propaganda department "produced" the scene in order to slander the Russian army. Second, given that the BBC's coverage of satellite image analysis has played a leading role in this matter, public opinion also questions the British intelligence community for concocting illusions, manipulating Western public opinion, and then manipulating Western governments.
Biden was originally accused of "war crimes," but as the targeted mainstream narrative spread rapidly, he changed his name to Russia's "genocide." You know, one lie is to tell more lies, and considering that "genocide" has a clear definition in the United Nations, American public opinion has begun to express dissatisfaction with the existing definition and attempt to expand the interpretation and cover the original definition in a humanistic posture.
The following is clear, you know how disgusting.
Russia's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, released a video saying that the "Bucha incident" video was purely fictional
Pan-moralists create new fronts
First of all, pan-moralism has a basic feature, that is, "only talk about phenomena, avoid talking about causes."
With a stroke of a pen, commentators have equated the Nanjing Massacre, the Bangladesh War of Independence, indonesia's coup and purge in 1965 with the Rohingya incident in Myanmar and the so-called "genocide" narrative in Xinjiang in recent years, and the "Bucha Massacre".
Moreover, speaking only of the harsh reality, without mentioning the background and causes, nor the differences in the nature of the events, the theorist has only the interest in comparing the earlier pattern of genocide with the so-called new model of "genocide" and expounding the modernity and realism evolution of "genocide".
Second, another fundamental feature of pan-moralism is the boundless condemnation of the heart.
Because visible mass deaths are ostracized and sanctioned by the international community, "modern genocide" shifts to an invisible pattern. The entire extinction process will be prolonged, the attacking party will attack in pieces, accumulate into more to expand the scale of damage, or use structural means, such as starvation, sexual abuse, isolation, sterilization, deprivation of rights, etc., to slowly "hang" the target group, so as to avoid making too much noise at once and being suppressed by the international community.
This is the main argument of pan-moralists: the criterion should shift from mass death to mass trauma.
This model now has a name, "attrition by Genocide" or "Genocide by Attrition," to encapsulate the relatively invisible patterns of extinction. The "Rohingya incident" in Myanmar and Xinjiang in China are classified as such.
It is true that this phenomenon may exist on a global scale, but the causes of similar incidents are still crucial, and what should be done when the conflict between the two ethnic groups escalates towards a spiral of violence? At the level of governance in the country concerned, an effective prescription can only be prescribed if the cause is found, but the third party outside the situation only looks at the phenomenon and ignores the cause, of course, does not understand, or deliberately does not understand the prescription, and then arbitrarily criticizes according to the appearance and imposes unwarranted sanctions.
Ethnic conflicts, both of which will produce trauma, some policies, precisely aimed at reducing trauma and eliminating violence, but there are unrelated third parties, indiscriminately jumping out to point and point, pulling open wounds, and causing trouble. This is why most Asian countries are reluctant to intervene in disputes within their neighbors, and cases with heavy casualties are still difficult to distinguish between right and wrong, let alone those hidden conflicts that have no deaths and injuries?
In the commentators' descriptions, the Xinjiang incident has been described as "mass abuse" and "mass detention," but because there were no "mass deaths," it set a precedent that the West could not mobilize, and this is the purpose of the whole discourse: to regard an example that is furthest removed from the existing definition of "genocide" as a human moral crisis, and to urge the renewal of the definition of "genocide" and the broadening of the boundaries of international intervention.
The point is that death is an objective fact, trauma is a subjective determination, and expanding the subjectivity of international statutes will only lead to more controversy and more conflicts, and advocates are either moral control or cognitive warfare.
In short, this is the discourse of pan-moralists to create a new position for themselves, and according to this thinking, if it is generalized, even infinitely, the world is full of conflicts, where is there no trauma in the world? Where is there no genocide?
Massive trauma in Russia
Allegations of genocide are, of course, far more serious than war crimes, and in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia wanted to avoid being labeled a war crime from the outset, so it started fighting in the name of "special military operations" and avoided harming civilians as much as possible, and was still so sensitive to war crimes, let alone genocide.
However, war cannot completely avoid hurting the innocent, and if the entire West wants to cure Russia's crimes, and the body of a civilian cannot be seen, why bother? Therefore, no matter how much effort Putin spends and bears more losses, the desire to offset the guilt is very limited.
But genocide is another matter entirely, the Mingbucha incident is full of doubts, Biden is engaged in cognitive warfare with his eyes closed, no wonder Russian society is so angry.
The purpose of this overnight replenishment of moral codes is multiple, with the neutralization of two American moral sins being paramount. First, it downplays the Azov battalion's relationship with the United States; second, it marginalizes russian accusations that the United States assisted Ukraine in the development of biological weapons.
The Azov battalion is notorious for committing war crimes and has long been certified by the United Nations, and this group is the main tool of the United States to intervene in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and the ready-made American eagle claw can be called the Ukrainian al-Qaida trained by the CIA. Given that Russia's propaganda power is 30% larger than that of the West, the presence of the Azov battalion alone will make it difficult for the West to monopolize the moral high ground of this conflict.
On the other hand, the United States' assistance in Ukraine's biological weapons research and development is something that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Newland has admitted, while the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department have all denied it crudely. This is a plain quasi-war crime, and if the face of the West is only 30% thicker than others, Russia can add to the existence of biological weapons laboratories alone.
Therefore, the US side used the "Bucha incident" to accuse Russia of committing genocide, which means "I am a little guilty, but you deserve to die for your crime." Cognitive warfare, it is such a thing, as far as it can be pulled, even the French Macron can not look down.
According to pan-moral standards, how can the West's overwhelming superiority in manipulating cognitive warfare not be a "large-scale trauma" for the Russian people? Not to mention the most passionate sanctions in history, trying to wipe out Russia from ancient times to the present, from people to cats, from tumors to football, is not this a bloody modern version of genocide?
In other words, the interpretation of "genocide" by the heart, the five eyes of the United States and nato members, are all deeply sinful.
From 1 to 2 April, Azov militants entered the town of Bucha. Source: Summit News
To fight Taiwan is to commit genocide
Biden has played the Ukrainian "agent" like this, and has also set a new evil case, the United States just wants to say a word: Today's Russia, tomorrow's China, bet that China does not dare to forcibly reunify, and before it fights Taiwan, it can say that you "genocide" Xinjiang, hit Taiwan, and of course, "genocide."
After all, the plot, scenes and publicity of the "Bucha Incident" are all too easy to replicate.
Spokesman Zhao Lijian said quite profoundly: The rules spoken of by the United States are actually packaging "family law" into international rules and imposing them on the international community, and this hegemonic order is bound to be resisted.
Therefore, we must pay close attention to the new family law of US public opinion in an attempt to expand and explain "genocide."Although it is very difficult to make the above-mentioned arguments generally accepted by the international community for a while, the multilateral form of international public opinion is still far from being established, the US and British microphones are still the existence of crushing everything, there are many small minions in Eastern Europe, the face is thick enough and black enough, and the family law is said a thousand times, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not form an international practice.
Considering the diversity of Asian cultures, racial, religious or ethnic issues are more complex than in Europe and the United States, it is easy to be accused of the modern version of "genocide", China should take the lead in resisting the weaponization of American morality, it is best to let India also be willing to speak in unison, because now they criticize the highest number of Americans, and China still cannot avoid the accusation of "American version" genocide, India is even more difficult.
On genocide, if we really want to calculate "mass death", the achievements of the United States are far superior to those of the Nazis, which is why it cares so much about the moral high ground, and only in the roar of rebuking other countries can it exonerate itself.
Netflix's recent poor earnings report, the stock price collapsed 35%, Musk said that is because Netflix hit the "Woke Mind Virus" (Woke Mind Virus), made it ugly.
The so-called "awakening mind virus" is "moral correctness", and when the drama is infected, the content becomes cookie-cutter and tasteless. Musk denounced: By its very nature, the Awakening is divisive, exclusive, and hateful, which essentially gives the despicable a shield to become despicable and cruel, and cloaked in the armor of false virtue.
The despicable aspect of pan-moralism is that it creates divisions, exclusivities, hatreds, and the perpetrators are all cloaked in the armor of virtue. Now they want to get into "genocide" standards, and On the witch hunt list, China is certainly the most wanted man.
If the "Awakening Mind Virus" is raging, China is now a thousand fingers, if it hits Taiwan one day, how can it escape the guilt of "genocide"? Therefore, high-profile resistance is imperative.
From this point of view, the Taiwan pro-unification faction has long been planned and organized to be exterminated, causing "large-scale trauma" to the point of endangerment, and the "Ta Lu ban" has already committed the crime of genocide, hasn't it?
The "genocide" is mutating, and the original strain is the "Awakening Mind Virus."
Note 1: Under the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), the act of genocide is defined as the deliberate and total or partial extermination of a National, ethnic, racial or religious group, committing the following acts: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately placing the group in a certain living condition with the intention of destroying all or part of its life, enforcing means with the intention of preventing members of the group from giving birth, Forcibly transfer children from that group to another group.
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