• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I already know people like to broaden the term (and ignore the - cide) to serve their own needs. But alas, I’m here to educate, not follow.

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      1 year ago

      Please educate the 1948 UN delegates.

      Your fight is with the dictionary, not with me

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        Both the dictionary and the UN already agree with me

        noun the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/genocide

        To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group.

        https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

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          Please see the genocide scholar article linked elsewhere in this discussion for the real argument as to why the Israeli government actions constitute genocide

          Ethnic cleansing is component of genocide

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          It’s funny but everything here is stuff Israel already did. Like in my head I’m saying, “check” and moving to the next one.