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minus-squarethrowawayacc0430linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·9 hours agoIts forced assimulation just like what the US did to the natives of America. If what the US did was genocide (it is), then what PRC is doing to Xinjiang and Tibet is also genocide.
minus-squareLarmyOfLone@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-255 minutes agoNo, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition: … any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
minus-squareOmega@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·8 hours agoFair enough, but the term genocide is far too inclusive, I’ve heard people use cultural genocide instead.
Its forced assimulation just like what the US did to the natives of America. If what the US did was genocide (it is), then what PRC is doing to Xinjiang and Tibet is also genocide.
No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:
Fair enough, but the term genocide is far too inclusive, I’ve heard people use cultural genocide instead.