• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I agree that the word is appropriate, but it’s also problematic because it has legal definitions that are almost never met. Someone will inevitably argue with the use of the term, and the conversation will be completely derailed by a vocabulary debate

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      They can argue all they want. I really don’t care.

      The legal definitions of genocide are only difficult to meet because they were written by countries with their own histories of genocide. That’s why it’s so hard to prove.

      That’s not a standard we need to hold ourselves to.