Genocide requires intention, the ginormous loss of life because of diseases is not, in a legal sense, a genocide. Not arguing that Europe colonizing the Americas wasn’t like a genocide, in some places it certainly was — but the people dying of disease is not a genocide, more like a mass-extinction event.
Probably not but a word like genocide shouldn’t be watered down, especially not if there are currently genocides happening intentionally in Palesta, Sudan and Xinjiang.
Genocide requires intention, the ginormous loss of life because of diseases is not, in a legal sense, a genocide. Not arguing that Europe colonizing the Americas wasn’t like a genocide, in some places it certainly was — but the people dying of disease is not a genocide, more like a mass-extinction event.
That is certainly a comfort to all those that died.
Probably not but a word like genocide shouldn’t be watered down, especially not if there are currently genocides happening intentionally in Palesta, Sudan and Xinjiang.