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by thatthatis 4597 days ago
If you're mass murdering without justification in biological/cultural/racial differences, isn't that by definition not a genocide?
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In that case, the grandparent-comment is not actually asking anything and just pointing out that a word for defining such events exists.
No, I would argue the holocaust and more are confusing cultural disagreements with racial stereotyping which have more to do with (surprise!) culture than race. I think it's much more believable that a large group of people grew angry with a culture of racial inclusion in financial matters leading toward the ease of hatred of a racial stereotype than the actual genes involved. Race is the identifier, not the cause.

If it wasn't race, it would family names or family colors/flags, gender, buck-teeth or what-have-you, as shown throughout history. Bickering and bigotry aren't reason for arbitrarily changing things.