I really need people to understand that genocide doesn't start at killing.

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I really need people to understand that genocide doesn't start at killing. That in the stages of genocide actual _direct_ death is a later step.

It doesn't start at concentration camps, let alone death camps. At systematic rounding up and putting people in those camps.

That's where the road ends. Not where it begins.

It begins with classification. It begins with marking. It begins with discrimination and toxification.

It doesn't mean that it doesn't lead to a much uglier place, but it doesn't start there.

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