They're not the same thing. Ethnic cleansing is a work of fiction used by those in power to avoid moral and legal obligations to do something about a genocide.
There may not be any specific international laws making it a crime, but it has a historical basis and definition - http://www.ejil.org/pdfs/5/1/1247.pdf
People may use it as a weasel word to avoid genocide, but it is a relevant concept - e.g., blockades and threats forcing Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ethnic cleansing means clearing out people of a certain ethnicity from a certain area, alive or dead. Genocide means killing an entire people, with the aim of wiping them out forever.
Is it just me or does ethnic cleansing sound much darker and ominous? I know words have meaning and genocide is the correct term but ethnic cleansing just sounds so fucking gross/horrifying to me
God I hated every twee attempt to parse this. Top 3 most annoying discourses in grad school. If ever there was a distinction without difference, this is it.
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I was horrified to wake up this morning and learn that Trump loudly embraced the genocide of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.
He even mentioned places, camps, if you will, that they'll be moved into.
I was trying to say that people using the term ethnic cleansing were like saying they answered the call of nature instead of saying they took a shit.
There's still a pile of feces. Or bodies, in the case of genocide.
I thought of moving and killing based on discrimination as two parts under Ethnic Cleansing which fits under (main component) of Genocide
People may use it as a weasel word to avoid genocide, but it is a relevant concept - e.g., blockades and threats forcing Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.