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Finland to criminalise Holocaust denial (yle.fi)

submitted 1 week ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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Let's say better late than never.

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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

No, "cultural genocide" is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

.. 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.

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Culture is a part of ethnicity, however.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's pretty hilarious how tankies suddenly start quibbling over definitions once China is mentioned.

Where's that definition from?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its] economic existence".[2]During the struggle to ratify the Genocide Convention, powerful countries restricted Lemkin's definition to exclude their own actions from being classified as genocide,[3][4] ultimately limiting it to any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".[5] While there are many scholarly definitions of genocide,[6]almost all international bodies of law officially adjudicate the crime of genocide pursuant to the Genocide Convention.[7]

From that wiki page, and I appreciate the just barely academically masked sass about why it’s such a narrow definition