McGrillo t1_iuiexaw wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:54 PM

Reply to comment by DammitWindows98 in Human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns uncovered at site of last Mayan stronghold in Guatemala by GullyShotta

There’s a difference between a war and a genocide. Just because the genocided people are fighting back doesn’t make it okay for them to be gunned down.

KingDudeMan t1_iuipay7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:03 PM

I don’t think anyone is defending it but Genicide is a relatively recent term, war usually implied genocide up until WWII.

McGrillo t1_iuisqqa wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:26 PM

That’s just like, not true…

While the word “genocide” has only existed for about a century, the concept has existed for longer as have localized translations for it.

And saying most wars pre WW2 had the express purpose of genocide is…. not correct. The American or Russian Civil Wars? The Napoleonic Wars? WWI? The innumerable wars of Medieval Europe or Japan? Very rarely are “wars” fought for the sole purpose of genocide. Wars are fought for a variety of reason, however the “wars” fought against indigenous Americans were almost all about either exterminating them or pushing them off their land. Just because the word didn’t exist at the time doesn’t change the fact that these are not wars, they’re genocides.

iisbarti t1_iuiyrgn wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:05 PM

The term genocide may be new but war def is not and was not mutually exclusive with genocide before WW2

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