History Main / WouldbeRudeToSayGenocide

** That's because saying genocide can easily generate an InternetBackdraft. Kind of ironic (and saddening) when you consider that ''committing'' genocide can raise a lot less eyebrows and go unnoticed...

* In StarCraft, Mengsk crosses a MoralEventHorizon by having the entire civilian population of the planet Tarsonis slaughtered by the alien Zerg so that he can crown himself emperor. In StarCraft II, he starts out as a VillainWithGoodPublicity who have managed to erase all traces of his crime. His loyal lackeys all shut up about it (or did he have them all assassinated?), and in the public social life of the empire it's out of line to point out that the Zerg invasion of Tarsonis was convenient for Mengsk's powergrab. To imply that the emperor was actually behind the attack is surely out of the question. Of course, there is one single exception to this dreadfully polite silence: Our hero, the main character, the "Traitor & Terrorist" Jim Reynor. [[spoiler: Oh, and the genocide ''really'' backfires on Mengsk once the hero's forces have taken over the television network so the truth can no longer be suppressed.]]

* During World War II, most Germans and a lot of people in the allied nations as well refused to acknowledge that the concentration camps was really death camps -- even if they knew the truth for certain, it was so much easier to pretend it wasn't happening. To this day, there are still people who cling to the fantasy that the holocaust didn't happen at all, or that it only happened to the Jews -- thus retconning away the six millon ''other'' victims: the gays, the intellectuals, the romani, the mentally disabled, and so on.

** It's inverted in Switzerland in France, where it's rude NOT to say genocide and you can be arrested and fined for denying the Armenian genocide publicly (it's the same with the Holocaust).

* [[DoctorWho I think we all know of a certain Race whose goal is to implement Type C on anything that isn't them]]. They're motto? ''' ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!]]'' '''

The bad guys (or [[WhatTheHellHero the good guys]]) are currently in the process of executing a FinalSolution or similar process. Alternatively, they are simply going about their business, and some pesky population happened to get in the way and got exterminated as a side effect. In either case, let's not be rude!

* The term "Genocide" originated in the mid 1940s, so it would be impossible for anything predating that to be called such by contemporary sources.

Please be careful with RealLife examples; only use ones where there is now an international consensus that it was indeed a genocide.

* OlderThanFeudalism: The Roman destruction of Carthage and it's entire population was widely lauded by Romans of its time as both just and necessary, with the worst aspects of Punic culture used as added justification for their annihilation.

* SonicTheHedgehog 2 had a planned-but-deleted zone called Genocide City, which was replaced by the third act of Metropolis Zone after the Japanese developers bothered to look up what the word meant.

* SonicTheHedgehog 2 had a planned-but-deleted zone called Genocide City, which was replaced by the third act of Metropolis Zone.

* All the cases of FinalSolution in TheBible use Type A: God is the definition of goodness, so whatever population of human beings he chose to exterminate (or have exterminated by his followers) automatically qualifies as AlwaysChaoticEvil.

* During the genocide in Darfur, European authorities were very reluctant to call it a genocide, instead repeating the cop-out from Rwanda and calling it "Genocide-like acts". In this particular case, they had signed some law saying that they ''must'' intervene in genocides, but intervening would cost them a lot of resources, with no oil or similar to be gained. Thus it was not a genocide.

** This caused a major controversy when Abraham Foxman, of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, urged congress not to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This [[{{WhatTheHellHero}} was not considered becoming]] of one of America's most respected civil rights organizations. His rationale was to appease Turkey and encourage them to keep supporting Israel, but the internal conflict proved to be too much and the ADL has since downplayed the issue.

* The Armenian Genocide. Why hasn't this been mentioned yet?