So genocide ranges from “murder” to “discrimination, maybe”?
The only thing this does is cheapen the word. In the past genocide was something serious. But now it includes activities that are simply upsetting.
The only thing this does is cheapen the word. In the past genocide was something serious. But now it includes activities that are simply upsetting.
The word is attached to the intended outcome, not the specific actions taken to achieve it.
Using your example, if some ethnic group changed how they dressed it would be genocide.
That cheapens the word. Change in dress is not as severe an outcome as buried in a ditch with a bullet in your head.