SomeDrunkAssh0le t1_iu4grbq wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:10 PM

Reply to comment by Pons__Aelius in Canada House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by shpydar

They attacked culture, they weren't hacking people up with machetes. There is a difference, and descriptions could be more accurate.

TrainingObligation t1_iu503al wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:21 PM

Here's a word: "crime". Stealing and murder are both crimes. One is magnitudes worse. Doesn't change the fact that stealing is by definition a crime.

The term "genocide" is actually less than 100 years old, but the agreed-to UN conventions since 1951 includes the following under Article II which are not directly-inflicted physical harm:

> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; > > (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; > > (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Despite what you think, describing as genocide the treatment of our indigenous peoples is exceedingly accurate.