Quote Originally Posted by Swordsman View Post
If a specific IRL event was referenced and had a comparison made to it like: "oh yeah, the Sundering was the Ancients' version of the Holocaust," then I would say that's inappropriate and going too far. But to just say the Sundering was genocide doesn't seem distasteful to me.

Just my 2 cents.
The thing is, though, is that by throwing around words like genocide, eugenics, extermination, racial cleansing, and so on, that's arguably what you are doing - you're just taking a step back from actually referring to the events where these things similarly occurred in tandem, and share the common feature of being associated with, by name. I'll even allow it's being done unwittingly or without that intention, but to other people it's a very clear inference to make that you are seemingly bringing to the table, and that's what I'm wary of and what I personally object to, because like you, I find it inappropriate, and others do too. This is what I mean when I talk about keeping other people's points of view in mind, and encourage taking a minute to think about what you may be implying with what you're saying, and what it may suggest to other people.