• @secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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?

    Edit: as people have pointed out, this comment made no sense, because the number of deaths have equaled to other events that everyone considers genocide. Sometimes people make logical errors, and the above post was just illogical.

    • @bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 year 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