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A comment on Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide. Parent comment

Re:Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of... by dleslie on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:45PM (#26254663)
That's not valid; genocide is not simply death camps, it can be the purposeful and systematic erasure of a culture.
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Re:Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of... by meowing on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:58PM (#26254913)
I took a course on this, and part of it was just arriving at a definition. One way to think about it is literally the name - genocide is anything that prevents future generations of that culture or population
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