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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:44 AM Sep 2020

Lets call this what it is. Genocide.

and here we sit.

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Lets call this what it is. Genocide. (Original Post) magicguido Sep 2020 OP

Nope, since it in no way does qualify to that term TomVilmer Sep 2020 #1

TomVilmer

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1. Nope, since it in no way does qualify to that term

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2020, 01:33 PM

Sep 2020

... Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. ...

Some words needs to be used with great caution, such as this one. Sorry to see at a smart guy like Thom Hartmann messing with this term.

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