Slow genocide

A "slow genocide" is a term which is used to describe a genocide that is being committed on a slower scale in a longer time frame. While a genocide may provoke outrage from the media, a slow genocide may not be noticeable enough to be covered as a news story.[1][2]

Example
gollark: Do so, lyric ly.
gollark: You fix them.
gollark: There's a spec somewhere, it could actually be implemented.
gollark: They call it "pseudocode" but it's really a bizarre BASIC language with a syntax based type system somehow.
gollark: The computer science exam board here uses BASIC to explain algorithms and stuff on exams, and requires you to write in it a bit.

References
  1. http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/14/a_slow_genocide_of_the_people
  2. "Slow Genocide: The Dynamics of Violence and Oppression in Refugee Camps and American Ghettos
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