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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 10 months ago

You have spent more then 2 minutes discussing genocide here with us today, have you not used more then 2 minutes of thought in all your posts?

Writing a book on genocide would take more then 2 minutes. Writing a catalog of all known genocides would take more then 2 minutes. Writing up the definition of genocide would take more then 2 minutes, getting two people to agree on a definition would take FOREVER. Getting 152 countries to agree on the definition of genocide would take years...

Taking a complex issue, and being reductive to the point of absurdity isn't being helpful.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -5 points 10 months ago

On the contrary, I believe trying to expand a definition to the point of absurdity isn't helpful.

The idea behind the term genocide is clear and simple: the intent to destroy an ethnicity.

People are trying to call Israels intent to disperse the ethnic Arabs from Palestine a genocide (to add more weight to the crime), when even the UN definition is clear this is not included.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 10 months ago
[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago

Do you consider the Nakba as genocide?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm going to refer you to the genocide scholar article above above. I'm no longer going to debate with you

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