>>2462990huh? this feels stupidly arbitrary. especially when as long as capital stands mass death will continue in whatever shapes it has to take
scientifically speaking its just an artificial distinction made solely to politically emphasize a particular conflict by giving it more moral weight with little analytical objectivity. to people using the term a child in gaza killed by israeli bombs is genocide, while a child in khartoum dying of severe malnutrition due to blockage is just "normal" war damage. its just liberal ideology doing what ideology does, mask reality and prevent you from seeing the actual reason this shit happens
and when you point out this contradiction many then try to "accomodate" more conflicts under the genocide umbrella and it ends up being just another tautology for war, losing any analytical weight it held. pretty similar to how fascism is used so loosely its become almost synonymous with capitalism despite being a specific moment and ideology in history while also whitewashing liberalism as some "lesser evil"