If there is pressure to create historical amnesia, particularly aimed against specific groups, and there is active silencing of those groups, and there is a denial or restriction of citizen rights to those same groups, and then there is systemic violence as well as hate violence encouraged against those same groups, there is a word for that – genocide. I believe it is critical to understand the breadth of what the new right is enacting at this point in time. It is a broad-scale erasure including language, history, education, media, and people. In short, this is a genocidal movement. The International Criminal Court (ICC) includes cultural genocide as intertwined with the crime of genocide. The US is not a signatory to the Rome Statutes of the ICC, and has been non-ratified since 2000. It is a signatory to the UN Genocide Convention, but cultural genocide was negotiated out of that agreement.