“-cide” comes from the Latin “caedere,” which means to cut, kill, or annihilate.
When it appears at the end of a word, it indicates the act of killing or the destruction of something specific.
In the case of **genocide**, the word is a combination of:
Geno (race, tribe, or nation) + **-cide**
Genocide literally means the deliberate extermination of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
Unlike “homicide,” which has existed for millennia, the word genocide is relatively recent.
It was coined in 1944 by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin to describe the Nazi atrocities, since there was no technical term that defined the systematic murder of an entire people.
*Grok*
I have nothing against the creation of new words... as long as there’s a sensible explanation behind them.
The Nazis had, as one of their main focuses, the annihilation of Jews simply for being Jews.
Look, there’s a big difference between wanting to kill a Jew who committed some crime, did something you didn’t like, or because you want to annex a territory that happens to be occupied by Jews.
You would act the same way if they were Kurdish, Romanian, Buddhist, Viking...
It’s another thing entirely to want to annihilate anyone who is “Palestinian” (an easy current example).
Israel’s actions are as surgical as possible; there’s no way to completely eliminate unwanted collateral effects (the deaths of innocent Palestinians).
The United States doesn’t even want to occupy the territory held by the “Persians.”
All it would take is a shift to a less radical regime, and Iranians could live in peace.
Was Bolsonaro a genocidaire?
Hmm... during the pandemic, João Doria did whatever he wanted in São Paulo, and even so, there were 185,000 deaths.
What killed people was the CHINESE VIRUS.
“Genocide” in this case is an ideological narrative.
Not even the Chinese were genocidal.
They were irresponsible.
It was “reckless manslaughter” against humanity.
To wrap up...
In the case of the term femicide, the change in concept that’s being pushed is illogical.
They’re turning a crime of passion into “genocide of women.”
Is the woman being killed simply for being a woman?
That’s not what we see. If the guy truly “hated” women just for being women... he wouldn’t fall in love with one to the point of not wanting to see her with anyone else.
Does that logic make sense to you?
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