• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    When you’re a genocideologist everything looks like genocide.

    It’s inherent to his genocideology

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      8 months ago

      Does studying the occurrences and causes of genocide make you unable to correctly identify them? I would think it to be the opposite, them being able to better identify and understand current genocides or events and actions that might lead to one.

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        8 months ago

        Genocide is a rather simple word. It’s a contraction of geno (race) with cide (murder/killing). Anyone telling you they’ve needed to study the meaning of the word for more than 2 minutes is either a moron or a liar

        • jet@hackertalks.com
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          8 months ago

          You have spent more then 2 minutes discussing genocide here with us today, have you not used more then 2 minutes of thought in all your posts?

          Writing a book on genocide would take more then 2 minutes. Writing a catalog of all known genocides would take more then 2 minutes. Writing up the definition of genocide would take more then 2 minutes, getting two people to agree on a definition would take FOREVER. Getting 152 countries to agree on the definition of genocide would take years…

          Taking a complex issue, and being reductive to the point of absurdity isn’t being helpful.