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:Scope is not a qualifier, and this is one of a number of instances in a government pogrom against American aborigines because they were seen as an inferior race, or ''ethnicity''. One attack on a village does not qualify as genocide, perhaps, but a government putting into policy the decimation of another people is genocide. Especially if you take into effect government programs to "de-Indian" these people as well. To do otherwise is revisionism. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 17:40, 3 December 2008 (EST)
:Scope is not a qualifier, and this is one of a number of instances in a government pogrom against American aborigines because they were seen as an inferior race, or ''ethnicity''. One attack on a village does not qualify as genocide, perhaps, but a government putting into policy the decimation of another people is genocide. Especially if you take into effect government programs to "de-Indian" these people as well. To do otherwise is revisionism. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 17:40, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::So now we have adopted "cultural genocide"? That would pretty much encompass the bulk of human history across all continents and time periods. Should we make mention of the genocide of the Hittites in that the quick downfall of their empire led to the end of their culture? Treating people poorly is wrong, but it's not genocide. Trying to kill them en masse is. I would recommend that with you knowledge that you help fill out the article. There is nothing on the Supreme Court Decision and Jackson's words when he decided to ignore it. That is certainly a huge part of the story. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 17:57, 3 December 2008 (EST)
::So now we have adopted "cultural genocide"? That would pretty much encompass the bulk of human history across all continents and time periods. Should we make mention of the genocide of the Hittites in that the quick downfall of their empire led to the end of their culture? Treating people poorly is wrong, but it's not genocide. Trying to kill them en masse is. I would recommend that with you knowledge that you help fill out the article. There is nothing on the Supreme Court Decision and Jackson's words when he decided to ignore it. That is certainly a huge part of the story. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 17:57, 3 December 2008 (EST)
:::You must have missed the "as well". The behavior I mentioned was ''in addition'' to killing these people, and belies the attitude the U.S. government had towards them at the time. You seem to be in denial, I guess I can't really help you see this. -[[User:DrSandstone|DrSandstone]] 10:31, 4 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)
: 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)