Right.
So when we didn’t have the populations we did today, it’d be a genocide back then.
Discussion
Same thing happening today, simply
On a much longer scale.
You know the problem with genocide?
It’s when you don’t eliminate the opposing ideology.
Think about it.
The size of the population doesn’t matter. Take the US army and North American Indians as an example. If the army walked into a camp and massacred 150 individuals that wouldn’t be genocide, unless it was part of a systemic approach to wipe out all Indians. This is how I understand the term. The village could be a 100 people, or a city of 1000 000. I believe it relates to the intent of the killing.
Random dictionary:
The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
When populations are small, what’s the difference?
If a band of twenty men go to another bands village to steal their horses, get in a fight and kill the other twenty men vs the twenty men go to the other men’s village because they are crows and want to kill them all because they hate crows and want to eradicate every single one of them, man woman and child.
I believe this is the difference between war and genocide.
If they’re all dead, what’s the difference?
The reason they are dead. Did they die because they had property the others wanted, or did they die because of who they were, why they believed, what values they had?
definition of genocide is corrupted
So, what is it?
i posted a reply else where, but lets do better
latin root gen , which means race, which we understand as genes and their phenotypes in common
the suffix cide means to kill
genocide means to kill a race
a genocidal phrase would be 'total nigger death' or 'kill all white people'
a genocidal behavior would be to target a race to harm them, eg jews flooding white nations with shitskins, or bombing gaza because a few people came out and harmed your friends