I’m sorry should we stop using the word cultural genocide because it could be used against leftist countries? Seriously fuck off if a government has systemically kept a people from speaking their language or passing on their culture or stop the teaching of said language and culture or tries to “educate” children in order to get rid of the ‘unwanted’ cultural elements I’m going to call it cultural genocide. If your honest line of thinking is “We shouldn’t use words like cultural genocide because it could be used against countries like China” let me both put your mind at ease and tell you what I think. People already use that language and will continue to use that language whether all leftists stop using it or not, and second I don’t fucking care about China, I’m not talking about China, I’m talking about cultural genocide being a real thing that has been used successfully and unsuccessfully to exterminate certain cultures, and I use exterminate quite deliberately here, I could give you other examples of cultural genocide where you can then go “Ok mass graves in Catalonia, enforced Castilian in schools as well as myriad of other things done under Franco were bad, but can we please not call it cultural genocide let’s just call it Castillianization.” like can we only call something a cultural genocide when it’s accompanied by smokestacks burning people, like it needs more violence because you imagine the whole thing as a completly non-violent affair.