• secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There was a graph earlier in pdf format that showed the total number of people of killed and it didn’t look like an amount of people that would equate to genocide, which does not lessen the tragedy for people affected by it. Is the graph wrong? Does it misrepresent the situation?

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      6 months ago

      Genocide is not a numbers competition. Fucking get lost with that narrative.

      Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is literally four pages long, with barely 30% fill. It takes less than 10 minutes to read it fully. It takes one minute to get to the part that you directly contradict.

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        6 months ago

        you’re right about this, i was wrong. i said early on in my comments i was concerned i may be viewing this with bias and am very ignorant about what is going on, and i’m trying to be open to understanding the situation more and set aside my bias. i was completely wrong earlier when i said the numbers don’t line up with genocide and fundamentally just made a large error.

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      6 months ago

      And that’s one of the ways you justify a genocide when it is happening. It is also how you deny that it happened.

      Genocide is more than a sudden and total purge like what the nazis did. To set the bar like that allows other forma of genocide, especially doing so at a slow pace, or other forms of ethnic cleansing like mass sterilization.

      A similar amount of people died in gaza compared to the bosnian genocide