The double standard there is a symptom of the greater problem: Westerners don't view Muslim people or really anyone over the bosphorus straight as human.
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It's not real genocide unless it's from the Genocide region of China. Otherwise it's just sparkling collateral damage
Rhetoric is a fight and the best defense among liberals is always deflection. They are incurious and 90% of them don't care about what is actually true or happening in the world, they just want to feel good and right in their limited understanding. (Incorrectly) quibbling about language is a way, as you note, to avoid acknowledging the obvious of an ethnic cleansing happening right in front of them and by a country they openly support even in that ethic cleansing.
Rather than resolve this internal contradiction by becoming consistently against genocide, or even just shutting the fuck up because they don't even know anything about this topic, they gladly find a foothold in playing with words until they don't have to feel like they support genocide anymore even though they are still supporting the ethnic cleansing, i.e. the genocide.
Their masters know this psychology well, it is part of PR strategies to ensure that the wider settler population does not materially oppose the ethnic cleansing. Their lackeys gladly write the op-eds and soften journalists' articles to throw all of this up as a smokescreen. The liberal hubris of trusting every bit of bullshit from "the experts" at, say, The New York Times thus functions as a security blanket for liberals that might otherwise realize they're the bad guys in this situation.
Browbeating insufferable liberals about their incapacity for media criticism is something that has worked for me in the past. I would probably reserve it solely for the people for whom empathy means nothing or is entirely self-serving, at least in their current state of mind. You don't need to be as harsh on people who really do care about others but are just misled. Those people can be pulled to accurate opinions through exposure to knowledge, so getting them to come to your reading group or whatever is a better option.