PLEASE prove him wrong???

Question

I say the Holocaust was genecide (I think it's spelled right is it?), but my brother said it was homicide. I understand that someone killing someone is homicide, but wouldn't the Holocaust have been genecide - killing for religious or political reasons? He won't take his own sister's word for it!

Thanks in advance!

Okay, okay, I get it - genocide is trying to kill and entire race or social group.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Words are tricky things. They have rules but the rules are often broken and the words get into the language even though they really shouldn't.

Genocide is a word which, really, shouldn't exist, not because there is no such thing, but the word which has been invented to mean what the thing is, is wrong. The suffix : -cide or -icide from -cida (agent) and -cidium (act of killing), from caedere to cut down, is Latin, and whatever it is added to, should also be of Latin origin. Geno is from Greek genos meaning race. Greek should not be combined with Latin. That's one problem. There's another.

Since the holocaust was the attempt to eradicate 'The Jewish Race' and there is no such thing as 'The Jewish Race', because religion is not a racial trait, the questionable term 'genocide' should not be used to describe what was attempted, anyway.

Homicide, from Latin homo (man) + -cide, is a more accurate and appropriate word for what you want to describe even though it may seem inadequate for the scale of the atrocity. So. your brother is right. Congratulate him on my behalf, please, for resisting the urge to capitulate to authority (that's you) in preference to what he knew to be right. You should be proud of him.

Answer 2

Hi
The right word is:
"genocide"
whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life.

And
"Homicide"
Homicide is the act of killing another human being. It can also refer to a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Although homicide is not necessarily illegal, some jurisdictions use the word to indicate the unlawful killing of a person.

So, there is and definition that you may have needed =],
But, by the way, tell him forgiveness it's always the best choice to do and move on.

Good Luck

Answer 3

Homicide is killing one person. Genocide is defined as: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. So the holocaust was, in fact, genocide. Hitler intended to wipe out an entire populace, not just one or two people.

Answer 4

A single act of murder would be considered homocide. The killing of a large number of people for the purpose of eliminating their race or culture is genocide. The holocaust was genocide, without a doubt. Another source would be the Wikipedia definition of genocide, which is ""any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Answer 5

It was both homicide and genocide; homocide is the killing of a person, and genocide is the attempt to wipe out an entire ethnic or religious group.

Answer 6

Close - "genocide"
Yes, the Holocaust was genocide because Hitler was trying to kill off numerous social groups, like Jehovah's Witnesses and gypsies, not just Jews, as many think.

Answer 7

Your brother is just playing word games. Technically genocide involves homicide. It's just a type of homicide. Fratricide is killing your brother, matricide is killing your mother, genocide is killing a racial, ethnic or religious group of people, but all are types of homicide. All genocide is homicide, but not all homicides are genocide. Make sense?

Answer 8

Genocide is killing a race or ethnicity (The Holocaust involved several race eradication programmes).

Answer 9

Genocide is from the word "Genos" Greek for family, tribe or race, and "Cide" to massacre.
It means the mass killing of a particular race, ethnicity, or of practicants of the same religion.
It was first used to describe the massacre of the Assyrians in Iraq (of all places) in 1933, and later of the massacre of Armenians in 1911.

Answer 10

Genocide is considered the deliberate attempt to destroy in part or in whole a religious, national, ethical or racial group. By this definition, the Holocaust was definitely genocide.