IIRC , there is a post in rbadhistory debunking your claim . There were acts of genocide , most notably in California where I believe people were remunerated for killing native Americans , resulting in the massacre of quite a few tribes . How can you debunk a definition ? Nobody disagrees on the history , just how we ' re using words . There , I just debunked the debunking . There is a significant group of historians that thinks genocide should be a bit more specific in scale and elements . Otherwise we have no word to describe the unique scale and motives in modern history of the 20 th century events . That ' s it . <| sep |> We live in different timezones , when I ' m back home from school , he ' s still at work , when I go to bed , he comes home from work , so texting is kinda all we have during the week . Besides , he ' s fine with texting , I know he feels more comfortable texting than skyping , for example . What I expect is a reply when we have a conversation , not texting all day when there ' s nothing to talk about .