@Tami Bulmash Finally someone says this. Every time I think we are getting somewhere as a society in terms of not jumping on the next shiny new word that someone decided to casually throw around to sound intelligent, we see words like "genocide" and phrases like "ethnic cleansing" suddenly pop up in every conversation again, no matter how ridiculously inaccurate they are in usage, with nobody to politely tell them they're wrong. It's like playing whack-a-mole.

I've noticed "colonialism" is the latest buzz word everyone's an expert on. The leftist rhetoric (I can't call it progressive anymore when it's not) consists largely of a regurgitation of scary words that they heard a few days before, know nothing about, but from observation or lecture know will have impact, and then weaponize in order to justify the beliefs and actions that have become increasingly more absurd (and ironically against most liberal philosophy), to the point that they cling so dearly to those buzz words because they feel it makes their backwards views immune from criticism. They encounter a voice of reason? Shout "genocide" and "colonialism" or something like that until the reason goes away - easy! It is such an insidious and lazy form of willful ignorance that has come to be lauded and rewarded in the U.S. today.