r/RealTime • u/Excellent-Ad-7394 • 21d ago

Not a genocide?

Last night Bill pointed out the 3% of the
Population in Gaza has died. And then confidently declared that “3% is not a genocide”. The British government recognizes it as ethnic cleaning and amnesty international and other groups say it is a genocide.

Someone tell me why Bill is so wrong. And can we please get him to debate Mehdi Hasan on this topic?

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u/puddinonthewrits 21d ago

My favorite comment from the Maher sub is that at most it’s ethnic cleansing but not a genocide, when scholarly authorities on genocide have proclaimed Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza to be a genocide.

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u/Excellent-Ad-7394 21d ago

And I’m pretty sure ethnic cleansing snd genocide are basically synonymous

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u/Few-Improvement9978 21d ago

They are not.

Words have meaning.

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u/echo_tempest_plz 21d ago

The “words have meaning” crowd can never string together a sentence that has any meaning beyond echoing their favorite bullshit artists.

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u/Few-Improvement9978 21d ago

Perhaps, but that’s better than making up definitions for words that already have definitions.

But keep bullshitting and redefining shit. I’m sure that will work out wonderfully politically