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Did they? I was under the impression they came in, did a conquer, and basically left with the conquered understanding that the horde’d be back for their tribute.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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