• bl4kers@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    That’s a pretty ridiculous headline imo

    • Nickel is used for lots of things
    • “EV obsession” is not a thing unless “ICE obsession” exists, and both sound ridiculous
    • The mining companies are responsible for their own actions, not consumers at large
    • Indonesia is letting this occur and could theoretically step in at any time as far as I can tell
    • Genocides are always on “an entire population” so that phrase is meaningless
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      3 months ago

      What do you mean by your last point. Genocide only being on whole population. Where did you get this definition.

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          3 months ago

          So you dont have a source of this definition? Because in international law its defined quite differently, which is quite obvious since your definition, as given, would not classify many real instances as genocide.

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            3 months ago

            It’s the entomology of the word.

            Legally they have a definition which broadens the concept to not just direct killing of a people, but also acts that lead to the eradication of a culture. For example: kidnapping the children of a group and raising the within your own culture is a genocidal act as it leads to the culture dying off, even though no actual killing has taken place.