> There is no authoritative body on the definitions of words.false: there are a few. They aren't always correct, but they're more correct than you personally
> More generally, if genocide can mean...
there is no question what it means, you simply personally disagree with it
and since you definitely aren't an authoritative body on the definition of words, your personal pedantic insistence that the word mean only what the strict etymological roots imply, rather than how people actually use it, is irrelevant
> a negatively-loaded bomb to be lobbed in partisan debates
it's quite telling that you seem to view usage of the term "cultural genocide" to refer to cultural genocide as a bigger issue than actual cultural genocide
don't like people using the correct term to refer to the action? maybe get those perpetrating the action to stop, instead of telling everyone we're using the wrong words to describe it.
