[lbo-talk] Genocide in Iraq and Sudan

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Fri May 5 19:45:56 PDT 2006


On 5/5/06, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> On May 5, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> > Get your own word for it, I say; otherwise you'll make the
> > distinction (between genocide and not-genocide) meaningless. I
> > think it's useful to have the word genocide around, with its narrow
> > definition. Because that kind of behavior does exist, and it's
> > important to deal with that as such.
>
> Like that word 'fascist' of similar recent disagreement. There does
> seem to be a determination to reserve these terms for an 'other'.

But that's unnatural!

-- Andy



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