• CaptainSaabossa@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    A large portion of children were evacuated out of London to towns and villages across Britain because it was deemed much safer. A lot of them were made to live with other families they’d never even met before.

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      4 months ago

      Removing children from war zones is usually practiced to, well, remove children from war zones. Depending on perspective this can be considered humanitarian.

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        4 months ago

        Depending on how ‘voluntary’ it is with regards to the children’s guardians and who is doing the ‘removal’, it can also be ethnic cleansing.

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                4 months ago

                The relevance of that Saving Private Ryan scene to the comment you literally responded to.

                Depending on how ‘voluntary’ it is with regards to the children’s guardians and who is doing the ‘removal’, it can also be ethnic cleansing.

                • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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                  4 months ago

                  The child’s guardians in that scene are trying to give the kid to the Americans. (Well the old man is.)

                  Caparzo gets sniped, thinking he is helping. Because warzone. Relevance to: notion that children in a warzone is no good.