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by lern_too_spel 1271 days ago
Cultural genocide isn't the same as actual genocide. Pretending they are in order to make a comparison with Nazi Germany isn't going to pass muster.
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Huh? Of course it is. It's in the name.
The suffix "-cide" means "kill." See also: "pesticide," "regicide," and "patricide." Reeducation camps are not mass killing camps. The Nazis committed genocide in the Oxford Languages definition.
A strawman argument doesn’t “pass muster” either, seeing as how neither I nor the article focuses on the genocide—that wasn’t the point.

Though I’m certain you know all of this already.

The comment the GP comment was responding to was about genocide. I'm certain you didn't know that already, or you wouldn't have posted the parent comment.