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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 January 2014 09:22:20PM 2 points [-]

"Ethnic cleansing" usually implies causing people to leave an area.

Comment author: Randy_M 06 January 2014 10:34:58PM 0 points [-]

Well, it's a move in the direction away from the murderous connotations held by genocide. And taken literally it is pretty descriptive of the goals of eugenics.