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So why do we adopt and use the language of our enemies, especially when they are incoherent and categorically incorrect?
I have the same issue with the term “ethnic cleansing” which is a fascist euphemism they created for themselves, which implicitly accepts that killing a bunch of "dirty" people is “cleansing”. Why do we repeat it?
You can use whatever term you like. I generally prefer to speak in terms that people recognize and no one is going to mistake that ethnic cleansing is a good thing.
Incidentally, ethnic cleansing is also inclusive of things like deportation, which is why it's not just redundant with genocide.
We have terms like ethnic persecution, ethnic discrimination, pogroms and apartheid to describe the various levels of oppression. We don’t need to resort to using the “cleansing” rhetoric of the fascists
Ethnic cleansing is more specific than persecution and none of the other terms you mention encompass mass deportation.
Ok, well how about "mass deportation"
Sure, and what should we call it when it's a combination of methods like in the Nakba, for the purpose of clearing an area of people of the ethnicity in question, whether by killing, deporting, or scaring off?
Nakba was genocide
It involved genocide, but displacement was also an important element.
I feel like you are playing obtuse word games in order to cling to a term which, as a brown "dirty" person, constantly reminds me of the white urge to purge me from existence to "cleanse" it
I'm saying it refers to a specific, historically significant type of campaign on the part of those supremacist groups, and I don't know an equivalent phrase.
Edit: I think your objection makes sense, but there should be some equivalent term. You can propose a new one and we can agitate to make it part of HB policy to enforce it, if you like.