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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Killing the rich wouldn't be genocide.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

But it would be pretty based.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's only because they aren't a sufficiently large enough group of people

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

The number of people is irrelevant, it's because being rich isn't a protected class.

To use another example, it used to be legal way back when to sell cocaine and put it in soft drinks. "Cocaine sellers" were a group of people, but not a protected one. Criminalizing that group of people and explicitly trying to make that group not exist anymore isn't a genocide, because "cocaine sellers" can't reasonably be considered a protected class.

Likewise, Antebellum culture in the southern US was heavily influenced by slavery, and slaveowners were eliminated as a group of people, but that's not genocide, because slaveowners are not a protected class.