I don’t think you understand what that word means.
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HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 17 hours agoIs 14 million dead over the course of a decade considered direct enough to be genocide? Or does that have to be localized in one area? Idk 🤷🏻♀️
Ask whatever search engine: “How many people is dismantling USAID going to kill, how many has it already killed, and when was that data last updated?”
mriormro@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Genocide is generally considered a direct act against a culture, ethnicity, or religion with the intentions to destroy them in one form or another. For example if I dropped a nuke on say Salt Lake City because fuck Mormons that would be genocide, if I cutoff trade to say Twin Falls Idaho due to resource disputes and mass death occurred that would just be a mass casualty event with human rights violations involved.
It’s a definitional thing and frankly cutting USAID doesn’t quite hit the definition at least without proven intent. Who knows maybe it’ll come out that Musk purposefully fucked with it because he is racist and not just because he is a callous dipshit. That would push it into the genocide category.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Time will tell, I suppose. Thanks for the answer!