If someone said long handled, shunt-metal headed gardening implement we could guess what that is, too; but calling a spade a spade is much simpler and the person saying it doesn't sound like a snobby jackass doing it.
It's a blatant difference.
leveling down ethnic or religions groups as 'people who ...' is a subtle scheme trying to debase cultural heritage and traditions in human society.
The Sri Lanka narrative is a deflection belittleing the assaults and downplaying the cultural war that is going on.
These attacks aren't just 'some people' targeting 'just some people'
Those Sri Lanka massacres are geared to Christians & Christianity. They are not geared to just some people who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
France church sacrilegs same.