How is this genocide?
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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How is it not?
... It's not. Do you even know what genocide means?
Yes I do. Very well. Explain to me how it does not meet the criteria that qualifies it as a genocide, aka a systematic killing of a culture.
It would be extremely difficult for you to do that because what's being done is fucking genocide, shit head.
Ah that's the problem, you don't know the definition.
Genocide involves killing people. Educate yourself
Educate yourself
Gladly. Per Wikipedia,
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part.
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
Oops.
That is profoundly fucked. What paper is this?
It looks like it's from thecradle.co, a "news" site that came online in mid-2021. I'm putting "news" in quotes because most reputable news organizations don't host their sites on GoDaddy.com, don't hide their ownership or physical location, and don't have an open invitation on their front page to "become an author".
I'm not saying that this story isn't true, just that this site shares some characteristics with some less reputable "news" sites.