not so, tsuwm. You and CK, so erudite, surely know that "pogrom" is a much more specific word.
bartleby: "pogrom NOUN: An organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews.
ETYMOLOGY: Russian, outrage, havoc, from pogromit', to wreak havoc". typically including rape amid the pillage
"Keiva" was the name of my Russian Jewish grandfather, who lived though the pogroms. Whose niece -- blood of my blood, who I knew personally in her old age -- was raped in a pogrom at age 14 (!) Indeed that 14 year old girl, to protect her ten-year old sister, had taunted the pillaging cossacks in the hope that they, occupied with enjoying her, would not search out and find her sister's hiding place.
Not a subject of wordplay, CK; not one to be dismissed as mere "hypercorrection," tsuwm. How would you feel if others made so light of the rape of your blood-relative?
Or is rape -- organized, state sanctioned rape -- of (by definition) a mere jewess somehow a lighter matter of less import to you?
And if so, what am I to think of your values, sirs?
