genocide

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 12 12:19:11 PDT 1999


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>These are all pretty terrible things -- they range from shabby to very
>nasty treatment. But which of these is evidence that the U.S. is
>attempting to exterminate Native Americans? I just finished an article
>on how the media are advertising a spurious "genocide" in Kosovo. It's
>pretty clear that the media are trying to pin the word genocide onto the
>Serbs for propaganda purposes. It's an abuse of the term when the
>mainstream media use it for Kosovo and it's an abuse of the term when
>activists use it for Indians.

Forced assimilation, forced adoption, and forced sterilization all meet the official definition of genocide, no?

Doug



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