These days the term genocide casually trips off the tongue of anti-Israeli protestors. But moral entrepreneurs supporting a variety of different causes also harness the symbolic power of genocide to supports their objectives. For example, some anti-abortion activists insist on portraying abortion as genocide. In the same vein trans activists have denounced the ‘Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice’. … Conspiracy minded individuals have raised the alarm about ‘white genocide’.
Activists and interest groups often complain that a particular example of an atrocity has not been officially recognized as a genocide. The term genocide – mainly because of its association with the Holocaust – carries formidable moral weight.
The proliferation of genocide rhetoric is a symptom of the climate of moral illiteracy that permeates the western world. It serves to retrospectively turn the real Holocaust into just another ordinary run-of-the-mill genocide and confuse people with what is happening in the current era.
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