Gettysburg
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Gettysburg is cited by Hutchinson as a historical analogy to minimize labeling mass casualties as genocide, serving rhetorically to reframe moral outrage as normal wartime attrition.
Invoked historically to deflect moral weight from the present crisis.
Analogical touchstone used by Hutchinson to argue perspective and precedent.
Functions as a moral counterpoint—an attempt to relativize atrocity by scale and history.
Gettysburg is invoked by Hutchinson as a historical comparison to downplay the label 'genocide' for mass military losses, reframing moral language through precedent and scale.
Used rhetorically; no physical atmosphere — it serves as a weighty historical contrast.
Rhetorical foil employed by Hutchinson to relativize casualty numbers and resist moral categorization.
Symbolizes the bureaucratic impulse to normalize high casualty counts by invoking famous military losses.
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