I've a "test" for you Michael. Slaughter every human in a village and see if you don't get the term "genocide" attributed you - whether you think the word's application is correct or not. Then again, should it have been your relatives who lived in that annihilated village, the word's definition might not so readily escape you.
SW, it appears Medved is stuck on the hierarchal value of the word's definitive terminology and totally lost its applicability.
Genocide in terms of the treatement of native americans is a joke. Do you know how many total indians were believed to live on the ENTIRE continent at their peak??
7-10 Million.. that’s it.. the ENTIRE CONTINENT.
There are more “native americans” in america today (or at least people who claim to be) than there were when the Europeans arrived. If genocide was what the europeans did, they did a piss poor job.
A massacre is a massacre, its not genocide. And I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but the earliest known massacres were committed by the indians... and far more often by them as well through the years.
This nonsense that the white man is evil and the red man is angelic is not remotely true.... Its what the PC crap demands, but its just not reality.
several DAMNyankee apologists, here on FR, have said that the 4-day blood orgy against MY family in 1864 by "sherman the destroyer's FILTH on blue" was NOT "genocide" or a "massacre" either.
ONE "former forum member" of "the DAMNyankee coven of lunatics,BIGOTS, fools, LEFTISTS,haters, REVISIONISTS, nitwits & a RACIST" said on a WBTS thread that ALL the "stupid, injun savages should have been killed out to the last one so that they wouldn't have been on the "public dole". (you should also note that NOT even ONE "member of the coven" chose to say that he was wrong! i presume therefore that they AGREED that we ALL should have been exterminated.)
as there were (at least) 92 women, elderly men & several children (under 12 years old) raped/sodomized/tortured/robbed/slaughtered, as if they were cattle, one wonders WHAT it would take for them to call it a "massacre" and/or "genocide"????
free dixie,sw