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avazhi • today at 4:43 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

You seem to be confused about what genocide means, and your nonchalant careless use of it denigrates those who were actually victims of it, like those in Rwanda or Burma, where governments expressly systemically sought to murder and eradicate all members of particular ethnic groups.

What Hamas clearly aspired to was genocide in the formal definition (ie, their stated end goal was and is the destruction of Israel and murder of all Jews). To my knowledge Israel has never expressed any desire to eradicate all Palestinians, nor can such a desire be imputed.

Just because you don’t like what’s happening in Gaza doesn’t make it genocide, and you (and others) would be taken slightly more seriously if you saved that term for appropriately serious situations (with the requisite mens rea), which Gaza is not.


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tomnipotent • today at 5:36 AM

> has never expressed

Yes, the 4% of the Palestinian population they've killed is definitely not a form of expression. Like somehow killing only matters if you talk about how fun it is first.

For the record that's greater than the % of Bosniaks killed in the Bosnia genocide.

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samudrijan • today at 5:24 AM

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide.

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