I use it in the technical legal sense and made that explicit too.
Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (Article 2 CPPCG)
People are really inconsistent however in colloquial usage and moral reasoning. I partially agree with your objection. Communist crimes are basically whitewashed because “Mao killed Chinese and he was Chinese so it wasn’t genocide so Hitler is still worse”. Isn’t a life a life? Shouldn’t whatever the term one uses, the negative feeling be the same?
I use it in the technical legal sense and made that explicit too.
People are really inconsistent however in colloquial usage and moral reasoning. I partially agree with your objection. Communist crimes are basically whitewashed because “Mao killed Chinese and he was Chinese so it wasn’t genocide so Hitler is still worse”. Isn’t a life a life? Shouldn’t whatever the term one uses, the negative feeling be the same?