Expelling people who have no particular attachment or roots to a given land is not ethnic cleansing. Otherwise people could just move to a random country as a group and refuse to get deported.
The online left, as usual, is being ridiculous.
(There is however a concept of "genocide by substitution", a term coined by Martiniquan poet Aimé Césaire, where you massively import foreign populations into a land in order to dilute and eventually replace the native population.)
I'll say here what I said the last time this got posted: By this definition, the Dalai Lama supports the ethnic cleansing of Tibet, the Dominican Republic is ethnically cleansing Haitians [1], Ghana ethnically cleansed over 3 million people [2], Uganda ethnically cleansed Indians [3], and Iran ethnically cleansed over 1 million Afghans [4]. Amazingly, none of the articles refer to any of this as "ethnic cleansing".
Enforcing borders is not ethnic cleansing.
Expelling people who have no particular attachment or roots to a given land is not ethnic cleansing. Otherwise people could just move to a random country as a group and refuse to get deported.
The online left, as usual, is being ridiculous.
(There is however a concept of "genocide by substitution", a term coined by Martiniquan poet Aimé Césaire, where you massively import foreign populations into a land in order to dilute and eventually replace the native population.)
I'll say here what I said the last time this got posted: By this definition, the Dalai Lama supports the ethnic cleansing of Tibet, the Dominican Republic is ethnically cleansing Haitians [1], Ghana ethnically cleansed over 3 million people [2], Uganda ethnically cleansed Indians [3], and Iran ethnically cleansed over 1 million Afghans [4]. Amazingly, none of the articles refer to any of this as "ethnic cleansing".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic#Haitian_imm...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_Ghana#G...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Ugand...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Afghan_deportation_from_I...