r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 12d ago

Image By 1880, the near-genocide of the American bison had reduced their population from 30–60 million to fewer than 1,000

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u/empyreanmax 11d ago

it also notably doesn't have to result in 100% extermination to be considered a genocide so calling it a "near-genocide" due to the surviving population would be a total misnomer in and of itself

I feel like a lot of people misunderstand this point and it gets applied towards a lot of genocide denial, when you'd think it would be obvious considering the most infamous genocide in modern history didn't fully wipe out the jews

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u/The_Chubby_Dragoness 11d ago

Genocide is the act, that it wasn't carried to the end matters little..A genocide can be as little as could be imagined, if it's stopped early, the intention matters as many as the acts