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: From the Conservapedia definition of genocide: "Genocide involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group, '''or any huge deliberate killing of civilians carried out as a consequence of government policy.'''" How does this not meet the standard that this site already agrees upon? --[[User:BStowe|BStowe]] 17:50, 3 December 2008 (EST)
: From the Conservapedia definition of genocide: "Genocide involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group, '''or any huge deliberate killing of civilians carried out as a consequence of government policy.'''" How does this not meet the standard that this site already agrees upon? --[[User:BStowe|BStowe]] 17:50, 3 December 2008 (EST)
:: And how do you feel the trail of tears has become a huge deliberate killing? Don't you think if the goal of the United States government was to kill them, that it could have? [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:23, 4 December 2008 (EST)
:: And how do you feel the trail of tears has become a huge deliberate killing? Don't you think if the goal of the United States government was to kill them, that it could have? [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:23, 4 December 2008 (EST)
:::It was not deliberate murder in the sense that the victims were not simply rounded up and shot, but neither was the Bataan Death March. There seems to be a well-documented perspective by senior editors at CP that the treatment of the native Americans by the European settlers, and later the U.S. government, was not terribly bad. That's usually the perspective of the group that does the displacing, and not the group that was displaced. The fact that there were worse atrocities in history committed by others doesn't mean that this was not one as well. If the Trail of Tears was not genocide (and I'm not seeing any direct, fact-based refutation that the conditions described fail to meet the Geneva criteria), then at the least it should be categorized as "Ethnic Cleansing". --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 15:13, 4 December 2008 (EST)