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		dleslie on Feb 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecu... That's not valid; genocide is not simply death camps, it can be the purposeful and systematic erasure of a culture.

meowing on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

I took a course on this, and part of it was just arriving at a definition. One way to think about it is literally the name - genocide is anything that prevents future generations of that culture or population

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