The Coining of Stealth Genocide

Stealth Genocide: For 8 years under a variety of linguistic fictions, Muscovy has been forcing Ukrainians to kill Ukrainians. Forced mobilisations in occupied Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk have pitched Ukrainians (fictionally termed ‘Separatists’) against Ukrainians.

Source: Twitter Archive (20 September 2022)

The original naming. “Linguistic fictions” is the key phrase — the word “separatists” is itself Disinfolklore, disguising forced combatants as volunteers and Ukrainians as non-Ukrainians. The stealth operates at the level of vocabulary: rename the victims and the genocide becomes invisible.

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