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I've noticed a tendency, even on PBS, to lump all sorts of nasty behavior under the title "genocide".  Cambodia, for all the hell of the Khmer Rouge, was not genocide.  I'm not sure that Darfur qualifies as genocide -- from this distance, it looks like a mix of religious pogrom and ethnic cleansing, where moving the subject people the hell out means more than killing them off wholesale.

Rwanda, that was genocide.

Date: 2007-11-16 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antonstrout.livejournal.com
Does the amount of chicken nuggets I got today off the dollar menu count as chicken genocide? Or chicken flavored product genocide?

Date: 2007-11-16 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
That depends on your intent. Do you want to wipe the chicken nugget race off the earth and replace them with honest cheeseburgers, the Final Solution to the Nugget Problem, or are you content to drive them all across the border into squalid camps while you expropriate their property?

Date: 2007-11-16 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antonstrout.livejournal.com
Maybe I should just get one of their plastic tasting sundaes instead...

Date: 2007-11-16 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pernishus.livejournal.com
I recall analogous concerns about misuse of the term "to decimate" -- which may, for all I know, now no longer be considered misusages...

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