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Detention is not genocide. Stop trivializing the use of the word genocide.
by cthaeh 7y ago
Detention is not genocide. Stop trivializing the use of the word genocide.
- ashes-of-sol 7y agoChina has put at least a million, if not more, of Uyghur people into concentration camps. That is not detention, it is how you go about eradicating a people
- dx87 7y agoGenocide isn't just murdering people, it's any organized effort to remove people or their culture. So throwing people in jail until they give up their beliefs is genocide. You should learn the definition before you try and tell people what they can't say. EDIT: For anyone downvoting me, here's what the UN considers genocide: The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to "bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.
- lmpostor 7y agoA lot of judgement on a semantic that is generally accepted to be the exact opposite of what you are declaring. First given the context of the root of the word "cide", patricide, regicide, matricide, a majority of people still believe that the word predicates physical/biological harm in the form of death. If you want to expand the definition, fine but it isn't truth or the majority. If anything you should find a better word.
- morpheuskafka 7y agoIt was created by the UN which represents just about every country on earth, and which 150 countries have signed. And it dates back to 1949, so even if it was an expansion then, it is by no means one now, nearly a century later.
- Analemma_ 7y agoThis should not be downvoted, dx87 is correct. "Genocide" means "the killing of a people", where that group can be ethnic, religious, national, or something else. Mass murder is one way to achieve genocide, but it is not the only way: exterminating a group identity through detention, mass sterilization, forced re-education, etc. are all also genocide.
- mhh__ 7y agoWhere are all these spare kidneys coming from then?
- redmondperl 7y agoIt's an active genocide on the Uighurs. Why are millions being detained for no reason except being Uighur?
- xwolfi 7y agoWhy do you think they jail Uighur and not Akha ?