• @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    718 hours ago

    Dude, there’s like less than 2000 billionaires in the entire world. They aren’t a race of people, or ethnic groups.

    Besides, billionaires are the people sticking their boot on everybody’s neck, and creating this dupshit class war. At some point people take a stand against oppression. Violence from the oppressed toward their oppressors is not in any way the same thing.

    Nobody says, well, golly, I sure wish those slaves would have found peaceful ways to revolt against their slave owners.

    • @PlainSimpleGarak
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      -517 hours ago

      They are a group of people who have something in common. If you’re trying to kill them for that thing(s), that’s genocide. You can sugar coat it in anyway that makes you comfortable, I guess.

      • @CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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        415 hours ago

        From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

        The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

        Yeah billionaires are not included, sorry.

        • @PlainSimpleGarak
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          -414 hours ago

          Cool. Don’t care about billionaires, and I care equally what some museums definition is.

          And before you run to your search engine of choice to find the “official” definition, know I don’t care about that either. Definitions are literally (like everything else) just made up. A group of people came together and said “this word means this because we say so”. I can decide what groups fall under the definition of genocide if I so choose. And you are also welcome to accept whatever definition you so choose.

          • @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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            211 hours ago

            So war is genocide because you’re trying to kill/remove from the arena the group “enemy soldiers”?

          • @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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            14 hours ago

            I would think the Holocaust Museum would have a better definition of what constitutes a genocide than whatever random definition some bad-faith dipshit on lemmy cooked up in their own head to support their half-baked and lazy position. nobody should take your opinion on this matter seriously.