• PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
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    18 hours ago

    They are a group of people who have something in common. If you’re trying to kill them for that thing(s), that’s genocide. You can sugar coat it in anyway that makes you comfortable, I guess.

    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

      The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

      Yeah billionaires are not included, sorry.

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        15 hours ago

        Cool. Don’t care about billionaires, and I care equally what some museums definition is.

        And before you run to your search engine of choice to find the “official” definition, know I don’t care about that either. Definitions are literally (like everything else) just made up. A group of people came together and said “this word means this because we say so”. I can decide what groups fall under the definition of genocide if I so choose. And you are also welcome to accept whatever definition you so choose.

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          11 hours ago

          So war is genocide because you’re trying to kill/remove from the arena the group “enemy soldiers”?

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          14 hours ago

          I would think the Holocaust Museum would have a better definition of what constitutes a genocide than whatever random definition some bad-faith dipshit on lemmy cooked up in their own head to support their half-baked and lazy position. nobody should take your opinion on this matter seriously.