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Genocide - Definition by Merriam-Webster (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zionism in action.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Libs will say things like "Isreal asked them to move so it's not genocide!!" which is basically exactly what many of them say about what happened in the US when the US "asked" the people who were already here to "move".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just got banned from mastodon.world for “hate.” Apparently, pointing out that Israel is genocidal is hate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

their mods: 🤡🤡🤡

At least here the worst I've seen is the "both sides" bs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Lemmy.world gave me an instance ban for pointing to a fellow mod advocating for literal nazi policies and violence, asking for his removal. No anger, no rhetoric, just "here's a link to this guy calling for violence and fascism, can we remove him?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The ICC has broader definitions than this one, among which is the forceful displacement of a large and explicitly targeted group of people. Which this is, and that's disregarding the intense amounts of violence the Israelis are subjecting the Gazans to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

USA's history resumed in one word

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"USA" is a synonym

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a ... political ... group

So the US GOP is trying to genocide themselves?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sooo are you one of the people who will then in the same breath deny that this is also the goal of Hamas?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually, yes. Throw the word "terrorist" around as much and as ignorantly as you want, but the extremism of groups like Hamas has its roots in the decades of zionism running rampant and killing thousands of their people every year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

No one (sane) is defending the Hamas, merely noting that when your counter terror operation has managed to kill more innocents than the terrorists maybe you should stop and rethink your operation a little bit. If some people break into your house and hold you at gunpoint while they fire a rpg that gets shot down by an active defense system, i don’t think that you’ll be very happy the the governments only response is to blow up your house a half hour after they’ve left.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Clearly both sides want the other wholly and completely gone. That is, the extremist leaders. I'm sure the viewpoints across the general public varies wildly on both sides and is fed by their own internal propaganda.

My question is, why do any of us outside that region care? If you are not from that region, or do not have some kind of ties to that region, then why should anyone care so much what they do to each other? And I don't care about religion. "Oh its a religious area so Christians care or something." That doesn't justify meddling over there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I care about all the people everywhere at all times.

Peoples humanity and worthiness to continue existing does not decrease in inverse proportion to their proximity to me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

It's exhausting to be concerned about suffering. It's literally happening everywhere all the time for so many things. There's an endless stream of bad news where people are suffering and those in charge aren't really doing anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My question is, why do any of us outside that region care?

Hmmm maaaybe it's because of the immeasurable amount of human suffering amongst the civilians in that region? What the fuck kind of question is that??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine not understanding suffering that isn’t directly impacting your life to such a degree.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh. So why THIS specific conflict? I never saw this much rage and posting and commentary for other issues of suffering like the Uyhgurs or however it's spelled. And this isn't what about ism. We could bring up what's gone on with South Sudan for a long time as well. Or we can bring up significant local issues for various commenters.

It sure seems people at large cared about Ukraine because they're mostly Caucasian and feel like a "western" country. People mostly care about this Israel Hamas issue it seems for religious reasons or to take a political stance (which is indirectly deeply rooted in religion).

I have empathy and sympathy for many things that dont directly impact me. I don't have to for literally everything. Not being sure if I care about THIS conflict, or being skeptical at the extreme coverage it gets, doesn't mean I'm devoid of give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This specific conflict because it’s about a colonized people liberating themselves from a highly geo-strategically important fascist regime. This conflict isn’t about religion. It’s about colonialism. I’m agnostic and many Palestinians are Jewish or Christian. Most of the Zionists are secular and don’t even care about the Torah, they just want to colonize. There are also many Jews who oppose “Israel.” I care about this conflict because “Israel is doing collective punishment by indescriminately killing civilians and the fall of this apartheid entity would be a major blow to the US empire.