NOTE: the idea that Caesar committed genocide is a deeply divisive issue that delves into questions of intent, ethnicity vs. political allegiance, whether the concept is even applicable in the Classical world, and evidence, all of which can be argued one way or another.

  • thefluffiest@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Formally genocide or not, he mass murdered large parts of a Celtic people. Maybe some American lawyer could come up with some legal sophistry to wiggle out from under the concept of genocide, but to regular people, yeah it was a genocide.

    Though truly not the first recorded one. Alexander the Great would like a word there, and I’m sure a few pharaohs had their murderous fun too.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      God, I don’t want to get into this, but I can never let things go. Genocide includes the intent to exterminate a nation in whole or part, not just “I killed a lot of people in the course of a war”. If ‘killed a lot of Gauls’ is enough to qualify for genocide, Vercingetorix and numerous other Gallic leaders were committing genocide against their ‘own’ people at the same time, and in opposition to Caesar.

      • drolex@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Ave, Antonius Nictarenius from the Civitates Foederatae Americae speaking here. Caesar did nothing wrong, ever and we’ll invade anyone who says otherwise