• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        12 hours ago

        I’m not defending them, but arguably neither of the two in Star Wars being referenced here should be called that. Maybe the jedi one is, if we consider them a religious group and not a political one (debatable at the point of the attack), because it was a widespread extermination of them. The sand people one was just a mass murder though. There wasn’t a systemic extermination of the people, only a large retribution killing of a single group.

        Still though, they’re close enough that we all know what it’s talking about. It’s fine.

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      18 hours ago

      Seems like a cowardly way of saying you want to ignore all the increasing number of genocides happening in the world.

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          Well, considering that you’re refusing to provide any other interpretation, it’s the most probable one.

          Come on now, what do people here call a genocide that you think shouldn’t be called a genocide?