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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

The word. Genus-cide.

It's the killing of a genus, a race.

[-] wellfill@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So you dont have a source of this definition? Because in international law its defined quite differently, which is quite obvious since your definition, as given, would not classify many real instances as genocide.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 5 hours ago

It's the entomology of the word.

Legally they have a definition which broadens the concept to not just direct killing of a people, but also acts that lead to the eradication of a culture. For example: kidnapping the children of a group and raising the within your own culture is a genocidal act as it leads to the culture dying off, even though no actual killing has taken place.

[-] wellfill@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yes and relevantly here it also ceases the necessity of total eradication.

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