• GojuRyu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does studying the occurrences and causes of genocide make you unable to correctly identify them? I would think it to be the opposite, them being able to better identify and understand current genocides or events and actions that might lead to one.

    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Genocide is a rather simple word. It’s a contraction of geno (race) with cide (murder/killing). Anyone telling you they’ve needed to study the meaning of the word for more than 2 minutes is either a moron or a liar

      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        1 year ago

        You have spent more then 2 minutes discussing genocide here with us today, have you not used more then 2 minutes of thought in all your posts?

        Writing a book on genocide would take more then 2 minutes. Writing a catalog of all known genocides would take more then 2 minutes. Writing up the definition of genocide would take more then 2 minutes, getting two people to agree on a definition would take FOREVER. Getting 152 countries to agree on the definition of genocide would take years…

        Taking a complex issue, and being reductive to the point of absurdity isn’t being helpful.

        • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          On the contrary, I believe trying to expand a definition to the point of absurdity isn’t helpful.

          The idea behind the term genocide is clear and simple: the intent to destroy an ethnicity.

          People are trying to call Israels intent to disperse the ethnic Arabs from Palestine a genocide (to add more weight to the crime), when even the UN definition is clear this is not included.