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>Everyone knows what "genocide" means. It means an attempt to murder an entire group of people. It doesn't mean that. It means to annihilate a culture or peopl
by SyzygistSix 4y ago
>Everyone knows what "genocide" means. It means an attempt to murder an entire group of people.
It doesn't mean that. It means to annihilate a culture or people. That can be done by killing them or it can be done by destroying their culture and making their language, religion, holidays, culture, and cultural identity illegal or otherwise unable to exist. That includes forced assimilation.
- DiogenesKynikos 4y agoActually, the UN explicitly says that forced cultural assimilation is not genocide[0]: > Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. Etymologically, the word genocide comes from "genus" (roughly meaning "race") and "-cide" (meaning "killing"). It was invented to describe the Holocaust, and every event that is widely accepted as being a genocide has been an attempt to murder an entire group of people. 0. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml