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Originally Posted by Adder
As usual, there is a lot of talking past each other with some using genocide to mean "deeply unjust action taken by bad people" and others using its closer to the legal definition. On the latter, I think it's pretty clear.
On the former, I think about it the way I do our invasion of Iraq. Tragic, wrong, and a massive mistake that will cost many innocent lives. And yet difficult to resist in our grief and rage.
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Very much Raz' point, that legally this is pretty clearly in the category of genocide. The thing is, that legal category comes about based on the really horrible things done in the past. The unexpected part of the legal definition for some people is that genocide can focus on things that deny a people's ability to identify as a people, regardless of whether it involves things like concentration camps.
