In 1972 I wrote in my journal:

'This ugly word [genocide] was *made* to be abused. The only word for murder should be "murder". It is as morally corroding to invent new words like "genocide" to make some kinds seem worse, as it is to invent words like "liquidation" to make other kinds seem better. It is of course worse to kill two human beings than one, and so on all the way up into the millions; but Hitler's crime was a crime not because the Jews were "a people", but because they were *people*. It would have been no smaller if the six million had been chosen by lot. The predicatable sequel to "genocide" is "cultural genocide", a notion that tries to attach the stigma of murder to any attempt at the integration of communities that the speaker disapproves of.'

I have not changed my mind.