It’s tricky, because there are definitely ways to erase a culture/civilization without mass killing. Combinations of displacement, the sterilization and resource disruption others mentioned, cultural suppression. Although obviously there’s a lot of gray area, especially with the cultural suppression aspect.
However, there’s a difference between the sort of exacting, navel gazing definition we can come up with, and what the immediate reaction/assumption of the average person is when they hear, there’s a genocide going on over there. Which is to say, they think of the Shoah, genocide means concentration camps with gas chambers. So there’s a problem where, coming up with a broader definition on paper won’t change the reality that it will misrepresent what’s going on to the public.
To our lemmygrad comrades for the quality dunking on this lib
It’s tricky, because there are definitely ways to erase a culture/civilization without mass killing. Combinations of displacement, the sterilization and resource disruption others mentioned, cultural suppression. Although obviously there’s a lot of gray area, especially with the cultural suppression aspect.
However, there’s a difference between the sort of exacting, navel gazing definition we can come up with, and what the immediate reaction/assumption of the average person is when they hear, there’s a genocide going on over there. Which is to say, they think of the Shoah, genocide means concentration camps with gas chambers. So there’s a problem where, coming up with a broader definition on paper won’t change the reality that it will misrepresent what’s going on to the public.