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To: Machaon who wrote (4017)	4/16/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 17770

Nobody wants to minimnize the deplorable situation of the refugees, and when this war is over we will have a chance to find out what really happened by whom to whom. However, using inflammatory language irresponsibly doesn't help the problem. Genocide has a specific meaning. It should be used properly, or it loses all meaning and just becomes a generic term of condemnation. Our Western expansion was genocide. We intentionally slaughtered native americans because we wanted their land. Remember the slogan, "the only good indian is a dead indian"? The Holocause was genocide. Hitler set out to destroy an entire race of people. Kosovo is not genocide. It is tragic, it is horrible, but it is not genocide.

To: Machaon who wrote (4017)	4/17/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: capitalistbeatnik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Yes, Robert, because it's not genocide, I feel happy about the suffering of the innocent Kosovars. You got me. There you have it. I really enjoy seeing people suffer. In fact, I tape CNN and play tapes of the refugee camps over and over while I sip Cadillac margaritas and laugh at the lack of fashion sense of the Kosovars. There, you outed me as a sadist. Feel better? Now you can go around telling people you are morally superior. In your black and white childlike world of good and evil, saying that the expulsion and killing of the Kosovars is not genocide is tantamount to endorsing it, so rather than argue with you rationally, I'll just allow you the delusional pleasure of self satisfaction. To call this genocide is to minimize what happened in Cambodia and Auschwitz. This is just the ugliness of a civil war, pure and simple. And according to your loose definition what happened at Waco is also genocide.