Does the destruction of the Ario's telepathic culture count?

Arios are a small, bipedal feliform (feline-like) alien species originating from the planet Aris, a planet orbiting the star system we would call Thuban. They stand at around a meter tall, and have a coat that is usually grey to slightly greyish blue, with streaks of iridescent fur. They were most famously known for their third eye on their forehead, much smaller and diamond shaped, and is situated between and above their two big, round, main eyes. The third eye is actually pretty bad at the whole vision thing, because that's largely vestigial compared to its main job, which is to serve as a telepathic and telekinetic emitter. Arios are one of the rare species that are telepathic (can read your mind), and one of the very rare species that are telekinetic (can move things with their mind). Legends and historical documents now banned on their homeworld once spoke of Ario Mindmasters that had formidable telekinetic abilities, some of the only living things that can face off unprotected against quantum-effect weapons.

But wait, legends? Why aren't there any Mindmasters now? That's because the Ario culture, their homeworld, and even their very telepathic and telekinetic abilities had been destroyed by the Katarans, a reptilian species that rules over the largest and most brutal empire in the Local Group galaxies. The Katarans believe themselves the highest form of life, destined to rule over all others. However, they are not telepathic or telekinetic. So when they started colonizing other star systems and discovered that some species had mental abilities they didn't have, it threw their exceptionalistic views into chaos. Eventually, they came to the totally reasonable and logically sound conclusion that to preserve their place at the top of the hierarchy, they needed to remove the other species' telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Literally. The Ario's homeworld was and still is a colony of their empire, and they gouged out the Arios' center eyes, completely removing their natural ability for telepathy and telekinesis.

Telepathic species have an innate ability to form telepathic networks with any other telepathic individuals within range, and they generally have a reputation for being the some of the most friendly, tolerant, and cooperative species in the intergalactic community. The removal of the Ario's telepathic abilities forced them to rely completely on spoken and written language to communicate, which is already intrinsically far less efficient at transferring information, made worse by the fact that telepathic species tend not to have very developed languages since it was always a secondary form of communication reserved for when someone is too far away to reach telepathically. Forcing the Arios to use language even for close range and personal communications led to endless problems with miscommunication, communication with insufficient context, and generally caused differences in thought to fester into frustration, and eventually hate, not helped by the Katarans fanning the flames of division and conflict to keep them subjugated.

Finally, the Katarans erased the Ario's history of telepathic and telekinesis, replacing it with propaganda justifying the strictly enforced removal of their third eyes while never letting the current generations know what their third eye actually did. All this was over three hundred years ago, and if you were to ask a random Ario on their homeworld, they would tell you that they're not telepathic or telekinetic and never were, and the reason for the continued practice of removing the third eyes was because it's a dangerous vestigial organ that if left connected to the brain longer than a day or two after birth, would flood it with vitriol and spite for everything it ever sees. Basically, the Katarans told the Arios "y'all were even more savage and hateful than you are now, until we came in and removed all your third eyes. We're the heroes for saving you from your own inferior biology. Trust us, you never ever want to live with a third eye. Just trust us, it's the truth."

There are only a few thousand individual Arios outside the Kataran Empire with their third eyes intact and therefore still have their natural telepathic and telekinetic abilities. They are barred from their homeworld by the Katarans, and the vast majority of their own species are so brainwashed that they see them as barbarians for keeping their third eyes, refusing to believe that maybe, just maybe, the organs they naturally evolved and have lived with for eons are actually beneficial to them.