• CancerMancer
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    8 hours ago

    From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

    The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

    Yeah billionaires are not included, sorry.

    • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
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      7 hours ago

      Cool. Don’t care about billionaires, and I care equally what some museums definition is.

      And before you run to your search engine of choice to find the “official” definition, know I don’t care about that either. Definitions are literally (like everything else) just made up. A group of people came together and said “this word means this because we say so”. I can decide what groups fall under the definition of genocide if I so choose. And you are also welcome to accept whatever definition you so choose.

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        3 hours ago

        So war is genocide because you’re trying to kill/remove from the arena the group “enemy soldiers”?

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        6 hours ago

        I would think the Holocaust Museum would have a better definition of what constitutes a genocide than whatever random definition some bad-faith dipshit on lemmy cooked up in their own head to support their half-baked and lazy position. nobody should take your opinion on this matter seriously.