• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Or maybe killing a group that doesn’t qualify the definition of genocide?

    yeah let’s kill a group of people that is not a group of people

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      7 days ago

      Just shoot madly into a crowd with a low rate of fire. Totally ethical since it’s absolutely random.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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          The number of people is irrelevant, it’s because being rich isn’t a protected class.

          To use another example, it used to be legal way back when to sell cocaine and put it in soft drinks. “Cocaine sellers” were a group of people, but not a protected one. Criminalizing that group of people and explicitly trying to make that group not exist anymore isn’t a genocide, because “cocaine sellers” can’t reasonably be considered a protected class.

          Likewise, Antebellum culture in the southern US was heavily influenced by slavery, and slaveowners were eliminated as a group of people, but that’s not genocide, because slaveowners are not a protected class.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      In a strict reading, killing LGBTQ wouldn’t be genocide because they aren’t all related. On the other hand, they do form a (sub) culture. You can argue both ways but they technically don’t tick all the boxes. So it’s as bad but not jurisprudentially genocide so maybe a compromise we can convince our centrist friend of?

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        7 days ago

        it depends how pedantic you are about the exact definition but I think (or hope) most people agree that would be genocide

    • Noizth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      And to define that this group of people I hate is not a group of people, we asked this judge to weight on the matter.

      No we didn’t bribe them. Trust me bro.