User talk:Laurennoble/sandbox

Hi, Laurennoble. I applaud you and your group for choosing an ambitious topic and would like to encourage you to delve deeper into this and to challenge your own and others' perceptions of genocide in American history. Thinking about what your group would like to focus on, the genocide of Native Americans, I'm trying to determine where that would best fit into this article. It seems like there is no Examples in history section yet. Maybe you could create one. It then would be appropriate to include other examples in this section as well. I notice in some other places in the article, the author points out that there is debate over whether certain conflicts should be categorized as genocide. I hope that your group will approach Native American genocide in the same way, especially with regards to "modern day issues," of which I'm not sure to what you are referring. Keep in mind that genocide is, by definition, an intentional action. Arguing intention is not the job of a Wikipedian, and may be seen as inflammatory. The media faces the same issue with reporting on untrue statements that Donald Trump makes: calling them "lies" implies that he was knowingly not being truthful. Even if we all agree that it's irresponsible and inexcusable of him to be so incautious, the word "lies" is probably not appropriate here, since nobody can know his intent, and also it would probably further polarize people. With that being said, by all means present whatever commonly known facts you find in an unbiased manner...I'm very interested to learn from what you present! Best of luck. Graycake (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2017 (UTC)