• marcos@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It means “killing a group of inter-related X”, where people naturally fills the X with “people”.

    Killing a group of animals isn’t referred to as genocide.

    Not usually. But it’s perfectly within the meaning of the term, and people could easily apply it to whales and primates if somebody decided to practice it.

    More practically, it doesn’t apply to killing un-related people at random. It’s specifically applies to targeting people related through some characteristic.