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    That’s not at all anything I’ve said. I’ve said calling this genocide is ridiculous. Things can be tragically bad and not the worst possible thing.

    There is no straight up plan to liquidate Gaza as in a genocide. To suggest there is such a plan is ridiculous, since Israel absolutely could enact such a plan, militarily.

    Arguing for less hyperbole and more reality is not an endorsement of anything.

    I don’t care how many people on here downvote me or insult me. Discussion should be based on reality. One can express displeasure without making up crazy shit.

    This kind of rhetoric is societal poison.

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        In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such

        I love that you bolded for emphasis part of a paragraph you don’t understand lol.

        Fun fact, this part’s also important: national, ethnical, racial or religious group

        I bolded it for you just in case.

        Also every aspect of this is false.

        they have grown their borders by violently pushing the Palestinian people out of their homes until now there are only two small territories in which Israel has continued to illegally displace the local Palestinian people and create Israeli settlements.

        There are no settlements in Gaza, and that is not how Israel’s territory expanded.

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      The conservatives didn’t gas every single Jew during the holocaust. They had the ability to kill all of them, but they didn’t. They destroyed their lives, but many were not killed. Does that make it any less of a genocide?

      Remember, conservatives like to include a bit of plausible deniability in their genocides to help keep everyone on board. This is very obvious genocide with a very thin patina of “plausible” deniability.

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        The conservatives didn’t gas every single Jew during the holocaust.

        Jesus Christ dude can you just be normal for one second.