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bananapub ◴[] No.43544660[source]
it's not an "accident" if you randomly round up people based on nothing, then exile them to a foreign slave prison, it was a deliberate series of steps to terrify these people and everyone else.
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1. ZeroGravitas ◴[] No.43544857[source]
People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason:

https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid...

> It’s a crash, not an accident. End the language of denial.

> I can’t help but get upset when people call a crash an accident. I lost my leg in a crash with a lorry. It was preventable – and even though the driver didn’t intend for the crash to happen, it was still his fault