if time man uses his magic crispr wand to forcibly change the genes of a bunch of people of a certain ethnicity such that they lack the characteristics of that ethnicity and are indistinguishable from everyone else, is it genocide?
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ok let’s address the cultural angle more if you force all children of a certain culture to attend schools where they’re indoctrinated into a different culture and forced to adopt its mannerisms, is it genocide?
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if you force all children to attend schools which to a significant extent enforce conformity to the dominant culture and punish deviant cultural elements, is this genocide of those deviant elements?
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does the above describe public education
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if you outlaw certain practices which are important in a particular culture, essentially making it illegal for some people to practice their culture, is it genocide?
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if you prohibit certain native american groups from using psychedelics in religious practices, as they have done for thousands of years, is it genocide?
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if you prohibit psychedelic use in general but carve out an ad hoc exception for the aforementioned native american groups, while still making the religious or pseudo-religious practices of numerous other, less legible, cultural groups illegal, is it genocide?
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is the controlled substances act genocide against the hippies
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ok well i can’t think of any other amusingly hyperbolic examples but you can see where i’m going with this
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Replying to @acidshill
This is incredibly underspecified and full of holes. Genocide emerges first and foremost as a legal concept and is fairly carefully elaborated in the relevant instruments.
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laws are fake and no one cares about them here
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eigenrobot @eigenrobotthis paragraph is hilarious to me. as i suspected from a hostile reading the text of the Constitution *only* prohibits attainder for treason specifically so hypothetically constitutionally you could assign attainder as a penalty for jaywalking pic.twitter.com/XiZ5EkINJIShow this thread0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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