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Ok then that makes sense I've only heard it in killing terms I didn't know there was a less severe use of the word. Which is kind of odd but here we are.
It isnt really any less severe... Less violent, maybe but not necessarily.
Native Americans have spent 500 years being genocided. Some of that was in extermination campaigns but a LOT of kidnapping and forced acculturation into "the white mans world" accomplishes the same goal of eradication of a culture or ethnic group.
There's a long history of forced sterilization in the american black community as well, not to mention that we have a record of arresting black men and throwing them in prison for the crime of being black and poor.
All of these are different methods of genocide.
I understand but I feel like most of the time when people hear the trans community is being genocided everyone thinks it's an overreaction because they immediately think of the killing part and concentration camps that's all I'm saying.
That's why your down votes aren't coming from me.
There is an association that makes sense to people, but that association isnt reflective of what genocide actually is. Its a specific example, and because that specific example isnt 1:1 it's misunderstood.
Nuance left the party around the time folks started thinking you could carry on a conversation with 144 characters or fewer, not that it was in the limelight before then either.
I do not have a solution for the interaction between brain and mouth, or mouth and brain, sadly.
Oh yeah social media has ruined the ability of people to actually converse and have conversations and debate. Its sad.