I have had a number of conversations with people who throw out the word genocide at every outrage. An Israeli soldier shoots a civilian throwing a molotov cocktail at him and it's "genocide." Blocking migrants from crossing the border is "genocide." It dumbs down the true meaning of the word and thus the true magnitude of the crime. The massacres we are seeing in Ukraine, as horrible and shocking as they are, don't qualify as genocide. Ukrainians are not being marched off to concentration camps to be executed. There is no concerted effort to eliminate Ukrainians from the face of the earth. The Hutu massacre of 800k Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 was a true genocide. The ongoing Burmese killing of the Rohingya qualifies as genocide. The Chinese incarceration and reeducation camps for muslim Uyghurs is a massive human rights crime but not genocide. Words and their meaning matters.