• PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world
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      7 hours ago
      1. Being “ok” with anything is completely subjective and a personal choice. There is no law that says I have to have an opinion on every subject.

      2. I’m against innocent people being hurt or killed in general.

      My experience on this platform tells me if a person or persons set out to kill every Trump supporter, or murder every billionaire, you people would be celebrating. Hypothetical I admit, but it’s my opinion most of you would be ok with genocide as long as it targets people you don’t like/support.

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        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.

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          3 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.

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            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.

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              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.