Yeah they obliterated smaller outside towns to scare the bigger cities into giving them shit. They killed a lot but I’m not sure it counts as genocide since the eradication of people wasn’t the point.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tell that to the something like 50 million people they killed while doing so.

You have to be deeply ignorant, or some kind of idiot, to give the Mongols a pass while condemning western Europeans.

[–] money_loo@1337lemmy.com 0 points 1 year ago

I’m not giving anyone a “pass” to genocide, only attempting to be very clear about what the precise definition of it is.

Everyone killing people for their stuff sucks, but humans were doing that shit forever.

Not every generation was loading specific people into trains and camps just to gather them for removal from the genetic code.