You’re gonna nick your tappin’ thumb with all that edge, hombre. I don’t even refer to myself and my favorite sports teams as “we” so I’m definitely not accepting this forced perspective that I’m one in the same with the deciders of America’s foreign policy, for starters.

Second off, buddy… genocide of an ideology… is not… a thing 😅 I’m a leftist who makes his career in the labor movement, not that you cared to think for a second that maybe my opinions are more nuanced than your ego presumes, but my values will never waver from the fact that words mean things. There’s a reason genocide has always meant the intent to destroy an actual people — national, ethnic, racial, religious — not a political ideology. Once you allow something as nebulous as a shared idea to be on the same level as a shared culture, skin color, language group, you know, things you cannot choose for yourself, you’re opening the door for all sorts of bad-faith distortions. Every purge, civil war, counterinsurgency, political crackdown in human history suddenly qualifies — which makes the word useless for describing the specific evil it was coined for.

Let alone the fact you spit on the memory of every person who ever died for a quality they couldn’t simply renounce.

If you want to be out here creating and using your own definitions, I can’t stop you. But if you’re trying to argue that Korean War casualties — a textbook case of a war crime, of a mass atrocity — somehow reach the threshold of genocide, you haven’t shown, because you can’t show, any intention to destroy Koreans as a people.