Interesting question: Is what is being waged against black people genocide?

[Playinghardball]

Broderick Greer ?@BroderickGreer · 2h2 hours ago
I've been challenged on this, but I still wholeheartedly believe what is being waged against black people is genocide

Broderick Greer ?@BroderickGreer · 2h2 hours ago
The only one of these qualifications for genocide that doesn't apply to black people is E.

[fredamae]

1. If you apply the "force"

of State Authorities/Childrens Protective Services.....and taking kids away from their parents for simply allowing their children to walk to and play in a park in their own neighborhoods etc?
I think "E" could be considered applicable as well.
And yes, I have pondered this very question and I, sadly....think perhaps - yes.
What was it called when they wiped out Native Americans? What is the difference between that and what is happening to AA today, besides time, method and a date on the calendar?
This is Everybody's problem.
I hope more folks can understand it is up to all of us to End the Division being used Against us all and start Standing Up for and With those who are oppressed-no matter who it is.
Together "we" can. Divided "we" can't.

[onenote]

2. Not according to the international court's interpretation of that provision

In particular, intent to destroy requires an intent to physically eliminate the presence of a group. And "in whole or in part" means entirely or in such substantial part, or such an essential part, as to make likely the eventual destruction of the group.

[hfojvt]

3. they should have said "substantial part" then

because the way it is written now, if you deliberately kill ONE person (a very small part, but still a part) then that's a genocide.

Then again, if even one woman survives, then, at least in theory, a part of the group could also survive. After all, one couple, Robert White and Bridget Allgar from the 1570s are said to have well over 10,000,000 descendants today.

[Kalidurga]

4. Yes it is genocide

Even if out right murder isn't done there is a shorter life expectancy and it's even worse for poor POC.

[0rganism]

5. i would call it more of a "eugenics program" to create a permanent underclass

genocide would be killing the goose that lays golden eggs.

[Maedhros]

6. I think the most direct comparison would be to the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement

in the 60's, such as the murder of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County Mississippi in June 1964.

Back then, the perpetrators wore hoods. Now, they wear badges.

Back then, black Americans were gaining equal rights. Now, a black man ascended to the presidency. Both are serious threats to the reactionary racists' status quo, prompting violence in response.

[seveneyes]

7. no

[Henryville]

8. Doesn't seem to apply...

[cemaphonic]

9. No, and even asking trivializes actual genocide

Look at the history of the Holocaust, or the Armenian genocide, or the history of indigenous people of North America or Australia.

Racial problems in the US are not even close to being on the same scale. Also, the typical usage of the word are all in cases where the acts to destroy a particular ethnic group are a matter of deliberate government policy at the highest levels, which is clearly not the case in the US.

[gollygee]

10. I know a good number of people who have adopted black children from CPS

after they've been forcibly taken away from their parents. I think it works as well as any of the others anyway.

[matt819]

11. Interesting thought

Mass incarceration, near daily murders by police, elimination of social services for the poor, largely substandard education, limited access to health care leading to higher mortality rates.

True, you don't want to associate with the kinds of genocide in wwii, Armenia, Rwanda but dong necessarily dismiss out of hand.