EVs obsession is placing an entire population at risk of genocide (www.thecanary.co)

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[-] wellfill@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 2 days 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.