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Pooka Fey

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41. Did you just argue that mental harm done to a people can merit use of the word "Genocide"? Blech.

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:11 AM

Mar 2015

Wikipedia just taught me that the word "Genocide" has a LEGAL definition so as to avoid it's being attributed to just whatever :

Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to coin the word genocide in 1943 and define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

Throwing serious words around like M&M's will cheapen their impact over time, but that could be done explicitly and by design by some people who manipulate words and language to obscure the truth, for reasons of their ideological and political objectives.

Such as you seem to want to do, as evidenced by the last line of your post --- written proof that you don't understand the meaning of the word in question.

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ISIL fighters bulldoze ancient Assyrian palace in Iraq [View all] eissa Mar 2015 OP

Saudi Arabia has been doing the very same thing JonLP24 Mar 2015 #1

Tragic. But as it was with Dresden, or hundreds of architectural masterworks in Germany, closeupready Mar 2015 #2

Difference: The destruction of those German works was a byproduct, not the motivation itself. n/t devils chaplain Mar 2015 #9

No. Some of those structures were used to aid in their war effort. closeupready Mar 2015 #13

The US 8th Air Force destroyed Dresden, bvar22 Mar 2015 #25

Disagree. closeupready Mar 2015 #30

About gladium et scutum Mar 2015 #39

The differences are so great as to render your parallel ridiculous... devils chaplain Mar 2015 #28

Disagree. closeupready Mar 2015 #31

Glad some understand the gravity eissa Mar 2015 #38

What kind of bizarroland post is this? JackRiddler Mar 2015 #43

Disagree. closeupready Mar 2015 #47

I think the destruction by ISIS is worse eissa Mar 2015 #3

Wahabbism is a minority sect within Islam JonLP24 Mar 2015 #5

It is their ancient culture also. The culture of Summer was first with the Assyrians gaining DhhD Mar 2015 #11

Actually, no it's not eissa Mar 2015 #12

'Wiping out any trace of their existence' is their goal for all who don't surrender to them. freshwest Mar 2015 #35

Religious wing nuts.. vkkv Mar 2015 #4

Sorry, not the same eissa Mar 2015 #6

Death & destruction not seen since the 1st Saudi State JonLP24 Mar 2015 #8

I know people like to think that way eissa Mar 2015 #10

The war over Saudi Arabia has seen the very same thing JonLP24 Mar 2015 #14

Well, my husband is from Syria, and my family from Iraq eissa Mar 2015 #16

Centuries? Death and destruction on a massive scale occurred in Iraq, 2003 to NOW....remember? Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #18

Wahhabist Terrorists are trying to insite Western Intellectuals by burning libraries and destroying DhhD Mar 2015 #7

this is where we need to use some guided missiles madokie Mar 2015 #15

Yes, where are the drones? eissa Mar 2015 #17

probably circling a wedding party. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #24

my thoughts exactly. pasto76 Mar 2015 #20

Seems it matters not as they're going to destroy it anyway madokie Mar 2015 #21

Fucking Nimrods. This is a crime against history. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #19

Where the hell is the Iraqi army at? romanic Mar 2015 #22

Probably cowering under their hijabs eom eissa Mar 2015 #23

There we go. You expose your bigotry for everyone here to see. closeupready Mar 2015 #32

The Iraqi army dropped their arms and ran eissa Mar 2015 #33

They're working their way toward Mosul. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #26

They're not expected to make it there until April eissa Mar 2015 #27

They only have the capacity to destroy. Throd Mar 2015 #29

It is the World's Culture that they are destoying. That Art belongs to the World. Pooka Fey Mar 2015 #34

If you wipe out a culture's history eissa Mar 2015 #36

We can agree to disagree Pooka Fey Mar 2015 #37

From Wikipedia fingrin Mar 2015 #40

Did you just argue that mental harm done to a people can merit use of the word "Genocide"? Blech. Pooka Fey Mar 2015 #41

You win for most embarrassing post on this thread. JackRiddler Mar 2015 #44

Mental harm does not by itself determine whether or not genocide has occured. Pooka Fey Mar 2015 #45

Don't change the subject. JackRiddler Mar 2015 #46

Reports: ISIS bulldozed ancient Hatra city in Mosul muriel_volestrangler Mar 2015 #42