I know it's PC crap, but it bugs me that they throw words around like genocide and holocaust in regards to the smallpox and other diseases. I'm not saying that it's not bad that the majority of their people were wiped out - it is a tragedy, but Europe endured several of those tragedies.
Quick look at dictionary.com - genocide - The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
That doesn't fit what they call genocide at all, and in a way it lessens what true victims of a genocide or holocaust actually went through.
Naturally occuring diseases is hardly genocide. Smallpox blankets... they have a point. The highway men clearing jungles for roads in the Congo who brought back Ebola are guilty of the same 'genocide' that early explorers were. BUT certain explorers were aware of germ transfer esp. James Cook who sought to limit exposure BUT who can stop horny sailors???