Quote Originally Posted by redheadturk View Post
Like many of the others here have said, yer dang right I have a crap ton of issues with people having their world flipped upside down the way Venat did. I have the same issues with the Ascians' multiple genocides, which I have already stated. My biggest issue with #teamhydaelyn is them not being willing to call what Venat did genocide when it was just as much so as the Rejoinings were. It was, and there is no excusing it, it was objectively wrong, in a moral sense, just as much as the rejoinings. Instead of saying "Oh, but she was riigggght in the end" call a spade a spade and admit both sides did some pretty morally screwed up things.
This has been pointed out before multiple times by several different people, but genocide is a hate crime with intent to systematically destroy part or whole of a group of people who have been targeted on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, and so on. The root 'genos' in this case doesn't simply mean 'people', but rather 'a people', such as in a racial group. The reason why it shouldn't be thrown around flippantly to 'spice up an argument' is because while you personally might be privileged enough to live a life unaffected by persecution, not everyone reading your posts might be so fortunate. I understand that in most cases this comes from a place of ignorance rather than malice. Still, I'd personally prefer if you didn't misuse the word, or try to justify your misappropriation of it after the fact.

What you consider to be 'right' as far as the story is concerned is largely up to you, be it the Ascians, Venat, or some middle ground between the two. No amount of in-game lore can answer that question for you, and you don't need a consensus, moral argument, or even a rationale to rubber stamp your opinion.