“Least genocidal” is a terrible basis for picking a political ideology. It reduces all political thought to competing attempts at scope-creep of “genocide”, and rationalizes all failings that can’t be reasonably be labeled “genocide” as “natural” or “justice” or worse, both.
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"Genocide scope creep" - is that acknowledged?
I mean, it's obvious... but is it acknowledged?
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Exactly. Which is why I raised it.
Fifteen years ago I ran into serious resistance to the acceptance of that idea online.
Personally, I wouldn't try again.
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It’s only worth calling out if you have an alternative but distinct term for whatever they want to include that acknowledges the gravity without accepting the lumping
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