• betheydocrime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

    It’s only genocide if it comes from the Munich area of Germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling mass murder

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      210·
      1 year ago

      Can’t address my argument? Pretend I’m making a different, absurd one! Reasonable people hate this one trick!

        • DarkGamer@kbin.social
          37·
          1 year ago

          Ah yes, the fallacy of words meaning things. I have not redefined genocide, I have pointed out its current definition.

          any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
          (a) Killing members of the group;
          (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
          © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
          (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
          (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

          • betheydocrime@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            1 year ago

            From your link, emphasis mine:

            any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

            (a) Killing members of the group;

            (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

            © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

            (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

            (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

            • DarkGamer@kbin.social
              27·
              1 year ago

              With means it has to meet both criteria. Work on your reading comprehension.

              Israel says they do not intend to destroy the Palestinians, the ethnic group of Arabs, (who are 20% of Israeli citizens,) or Islamic people in whole or in part. Rather, if they are defending themselves against a belligerent hostile nation next door and intending to attack its militants, i.e., Hamas, these attacks are legal and not genocide, even if they cause significant collateral damage killing civilians.

                • DarkGamer@kbin.social
                  23·
                  1 year ago

                  For an act to be genocide it must be committed with, intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Hamas is none of these, and that’s what Israel says they intend to destroy.

                  • betheydocrime@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    You do realize that Hamas is an acronym, right? The English translation of what it stands for is “Islamic Resistance Movement”. If that is not a religious group, I don’t know what is.

                    You also realize that Hamas is the government of Gaza, right? If that is not a national group, I also do not know what is.