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I’m not a mod. Idk what their reasoning was.

Your comment was incredibly stupid and historically inaccurate. It condensed down myriad well studied events and factors into some abstract and mercurial human nature. It was also factually inaccurate. Rather than point to examples of other nations militaries forcing civilians to walk through minefields backed up by photographic evidence like the topic of the discussion, you chose to say “they’d do the same if they were in power”. There’s no evidence for that, and that line of argumentation justifies the atrocities committed over and over again by the us empire.

Now how could a mod have interpreted your comment as xenophobic, a component of the cited rule 1?

Very easily. By claiming without any evidence whatsoever that some other people would be just as bloodthirsty and demonic as the American military you condense and dispose of any material or cultural difference. It’s like the mirror inverse of claiming that some group are savages unworthy of life. You claim that this type of atrocity is just what happens, unavoidable, the cost of doing business, that the people who are in a position of power are transformed into inhuman avatars of destruction and chaos and no one could be any different (despite historical examples to the contrary).

Okay so if you can’t say that the Chinese are savages and you can’t say that the Americans are savages (but because of special human nature that kicks in when you’re in a position of authority, not for any race related reasons, we’re not doing phrenology here, haha) how can you say that people are just scum and savages without breaking the rules?

You can’t. That’s xenophobic.