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“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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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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The crimes now labeled genocide all had, and have, perfectly serviceable and semantically rich names. The scope creep was the object, and it has been attained.
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