genocide?

[amorphous_constellation]

What all the examples have in common is that the term is applied when evidence is found. No one was saying the Germans were committing genocide while it was still secret -- it was after the war when the death camps were liberated, and the paperwork found, that we had evidence of genocide.

Of course, yes. I think we may be on the same page the: genocide can run the spectrum between overt and covert. If things about it are covert, they merely wait to be revealed, when information and truth are freed up to be seen

 

[Revoltingest]

I agree that the Russians are killing civilians without care, which is a war crime. Horrible stuff. Just not the same thing as genocide.

Some words are emotionally powerful, eg,
genocide, terrorism, censorship.
People tend to use them as intensifiers. It's not
accurate per the definition, but it expresses how
they feel. So they rationalize it as technically accurate.
(Most people just aren't as smart as we are, eh.)