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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of course it is. There are still Armenians, German Jewish people, Rwandan Tutsis, Rohingya, and no one disputes that they were genocided.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're all being ironic, I think. In reality, if your goal is to make an ethnic group smaller so you don't have to deal with them as much, that's genocide, or at least ethnic cleansing. No specific number is required.

Also, FYI, Jews across continental Europe had a bad time. Anywhere the Nazis went genocide followed, so you don't really need to specify German.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ethnic cleansing is the forceable displacement of ethnic-group populations. Deliberately killing members of an ethnic group (or otherwise trying to destroy that group) is genocide, but unfortunately nations and news outlets are shy about using that word, so the overlap has led to confusion of the two terms.

FYI

Thanks, point worth making. My list wasn't meant to be exhaustive. Jewish people had a bad time in that continent long before Nazis as well. Hell even some of the early Crusaders went and committed genocide against Jewish towns in the Rhineland Massacres of the 11th century.

I was just cherry-picking a few obvious genocides to illustrate my point, in case the person above was being serious.