We get it several times, from no less than four different sources with as many different political backgrounds. In the Beginning) in a time when to be sure the Earth population will be well over 10 billion humans, and that's not counting how fast we're likely to populate given new places to colonize (instead of a planet with only so much space to go around).
If I tried to list every actual genocide in history (attempted or successful), we'd be here all week, I'd likely miss several, and more than a few of us might actually die of horror.Ĭompare this to a grand total of about 250,000 -260,000 human casualties of the Earth-Minbari war (all military as far as canon says, e.g. Former Commonwealth nations wanted fiefdoms and to rule the (insert condescension here) natives. Canada and New Zealand, and a good number of former Commonwealth nations had conquest and land grabs, and new diseases from Europe, without the degree and persistence of mass murder on a scale that we did here. Oh, we like to say it was an accidental we-don't-want-to-say-genocide as a side effect of land conquest, but I - a white American, mind - am calling Bulls*** on that one.
Like the atrocities committed by European settlers in America against the natives of said continent, (which, in North America ended in the systematic murder of 95 to 98.3% of the Native population, with only around 250,000 survivors of a starting population between 5 and 15 million). Like the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people (ending in the systematic murder of over 2/3 of the European Jewish population), and possibly the Slavic races as well (and if they were races rather than classes, we could add to that all the Nazi's political opponents, homosexuals, etc). We have expounded upon definition with numerous examples, and so when we say "near genocide", or "attempted genocide", or "almost committed genocide", we tend to flash back to actual (rather than 'they thought about it') attempts to exterminate entire peoples in our history. Literally, geno-cide breaks down to genos = race or species, and cide = killing of. Intended/Attempted genocide in the Earth-Minbari war? An objective analysis.
Otherwise it is necessary to understand the meaning and connotations of a term we like to use and not think about, a dichotomy that is quite impossible to cater to for the purposes of this discussion.
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