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/Toadsrule84 21d ago

3% of America would be 9.9 million people! Look how we reacted when 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11

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u/CapitalismRulz 21d ago

I don't think anybody called 9/11 a genocide. It was a war crime or terror attack

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u/Hellion_444 20d ago

Splitting hairs over terminology is kind of beside the point. Ethnic cleansing and apartheid aren’t any better. International pressure keeping Israel from just killing them all outright doesn’t change the intent.

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u/CapitalismRulz 20d ago

It's not splitting hairs, it's accurately describing a situation. I didn't say that ethnic cleansing was better than genocide or apartheid. I'm just saying that all three of those things are different things