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So we watered down the term, gotcha, now we know declaring things a genocide doesn't mean anything any longer. The boy who cried wolf and all that.
by Jensson 2y ago
So we watered down the term, gotcha, now we know declaring things a genocide doesn't mean anything any longer. The boy who cried wolf and all that.
- tdeck 2y agoRaphael Lemkin, the person who invented the term Genocide, also helped craft its definition in international law. The Rome Convention was based on his proposals, so the idea that his own definition of the term that he created "waters it down" is simply ignorant.
- afiori 2y agoWe correctly expected future governments to occasionally want to get rid of undesirable ethic groups and created a definition that would leave them a few loopholes as possible. If genocide was "kill more than half of a population" or "kill more than 100k people" it would be easy to erase minorities simply by forced sterilization. The Genocide convention was not created to stop people from dying it was created to stop entire populations from dying out.