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hockeybub89 posted...

"B-b-but they aren't shooting them in the street like dogs so it isn't genocide!"

You're right. When politicians want to use the government to eliminate a group of people from sight, whether or not it is done through state-sanctioned death camps is irrelevant to the victimized group. But so-called centrists that totally don't want anyone to be hurt would rather wag their finger at what that group calls that elimination and go "if you use the wrong word to describe your demise, the public might not believe you and actually turn on your cause!"

I get it, genocide is a scary word to a lot of people. It's got a lot of weight behind it, and their only association with it is images of dead bodies piled up in ditches, death camps, millions killed, etc.

But restricting access to healthcare core to a person's well being, criminalizing their culture, separating them from their families; what else would you call it, especially when it's all state sanctioned? It takes a massive amount of cognitive dissonance to call it anything but a genocide.