xenocide

The article is not claiming xenocide; it is saying that the probe may have killed the life in the sample when it added water.

The shoehorning didn't really show up until Xenocide when he was softballing himself counterpoints and whiffing them mightily.

Personally, I also loved Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide even though they are very different from Ender's Game.

He sacrifices his units and commits genocide (xenocide) at the same time.

Something that gets explored more in the sequels is what being a soldier does to him- Ender becomes a dedicated pacifist, effectively founds a religion, and devotes the rest of his life to undoing xenocide.

This got me thinking of Ender’s Game, where they basically tricked a kid into committing xenocide by telling him he was playing a computer game.

Sounds like an Orson Scott Card plot from Xenocide i.e.

In later books the Hive Queen confirms that they were never going to come back and that makes an obvious statement that the xenocide was unnecessary.

Spoiler alert: Ender commits xenocide just to prove his worth.

I hope this is actually just brain dead clickbait and not genuine simping for aliens by claiming xenocide based on literally nothing.

You could argue this still does not justify xenocide, and I would agree, but one could argue convincingly that the humans are justified.

The blame belongs with those who forced him into situations where he had to kill, who deceived him into treating life-and-death decisions as a game (the Xenocide itself).

It's interesting because I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird".

I think Ender hated and regretted what he was forced into unwittingly doing, hence his writing of the Hive Queen & Hegemon as well as the years of hearing himself referred to as "Ender the Xenocide" without ever defending his actions once.

"I remember in a later book in the series (Xenocide?), there were many off-planet colonies, and on those homosexuality was the norm and heterosexuals were seen as "weird"." I don't have a copy of Xenocide at the moment to check but are sure you're not thinking of 'The Forever War' by Joe Haldeman?

Both of these suffer from the same mysticism-used-to-spin-up-a-red-reset-button plot device plague that fundamentally guts Xenocide.

Counter Examples: Jane in Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide/Children of the Mind.

Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form - Card's view on this is pretty apparent in the first two sequals; Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide.