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@verylongtimelurker's avatar

Probably not a conversation I want to go along with very far but there are acts of genocide that don't involve immediate murder: "Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. " This is from the UN in 1948 I think but it covers adopting children out to erase their language and culture and forced sterilizations.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Right. But if the word doesn't mean an attempt to wipe a people out, we need a different word for that. And if harsh prisons are "extermination camps," we need another term for places where people are gathered to be murdered.

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