Tresy, I know from past posts that you have considerable empathy for US
militarism.  I am sorry that you don't accept a difference between the literal
linguistic meaning of a word and what a hegemonic group can misstate the word to
mean.  Right, Tresy, and the U.S. is engaged once again in a peace-loving
humanitarian activity -- just ask the President or the State Department what they
define those terms to mean.  Oh well, where will democracy and freedom strike
next?

Tresy Kilbourne wrote:

> Dan Koenig writes:
>
> >Bill, this is a Chomsky list serve and Chomsky is a linguist.  The word
> >genocide
> >is derived from genos (Gr) for race (or gens for a people) and caedere (Lt)
> >meaning to kill.  You seem to recognize this in qualifying your example of
> >Australian  aborigines as "at least cultural genocide".  However, I think
> >that as
> >you recount the situation of Tasmanian aborigines actual genocide took place,
> >though partly by indirection.  This, however, is not what has been
> >happening in
> >Kosovo, as horrific as what has been happening is.   This is what I
> >pointed out,
> >but you seem to have missed the point.  If  you don't see the difference,
> >you are
> >welcome to your view, wrong and linguistically incorrect though I think it
> >may
> >be.  Regardless, there is nothing to be gained by responding further on this
> >point..
> Nice try, but no cigar. This is the actual definition of "genocide" as it
> is defined in international law:
>
> "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts
> committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
> ethnical,
> racial or religious group, as such:
> (a) Killing members of the group;
> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
> bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
>
> If what is happening in Kosovo doesn't fit under this definition, I don't
> know what does.
>

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