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John Loudon's avatar

The disconnect on this issue seems to stem from definitions like “genocide.”

You can yell genocide all you want but that doesn’t make it true.

It is curious why the left is so liberally twisting the meaning of “genocide,” from intent to exterminate an entire group based on ethnicity or religion, to any military action no matter how restrained.

It seems that when your side does actual genocide you say it’s mere freedom fighting, but when the other side responds it’s genocide.

Hamas literally targeted civilians, men, women, and children for wholesale slaughter. Israel literally gave two weeks notice to the men, women and children to go south to safety.

Were genocide the goal of Israel they would have Carpet bombed the entirety of Gaza starting day one. That could fairly be called genocide.

Maybe google these words before using them inaccurately.

Another exercise would be to take your definitions and apply them to each side, equally.

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BenMedia's avatar

Alright you depraved scumbag, what Israel's doing in Gaza has actually been described as genocide by many, including a UN Human Rights Lawyer who resigned in protest over what was happening. Israel has also openly compared the people of Gaza to "Amalek" from the Bible, a people that were exterminated by the Israelites under divine instruction. And Israelis have been calling for genocide against the Palestinians for years.

Israel is literally bombing mosques, hospitals, schools and refugee camps under the guise of "defeating Hamas" (funny how they didn't know where Hamas was before October 7th, but now they suddenly know exactly where they are. And funny how them trying to "take out Hamas" looks exactly like them just killing people and using Hamas as a retroactive justification for it). Israel's attacks on Gaza both now and before October 7th killed men, women and children (the death counts now are actually higher than the entirety of the Russian invasion of Ukraine), but you don't care about them because they're Muslim (you already demonstrated in a previous comment that you're an Islamophobic bigot).

And no, I'm not going to "apply these terms equally" when 1) one of the two sides not only isn't trying to commit genocide but is actually the victims of one and 2) it's pretty clearly bullshit you pulled out of your ass so you could say "look at that evil, primitive religion of brown people over there."

You are a depraved scumbag who's literally trying to excuse and defend genocide against an entire group of people. You are a fascist. Oh, but let me guess, you're going to complain about the fact I called you that, aren't you? Well, too fucking bad because you are.

STFU and go fuck yourself.

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John Loudon's avatar

Hello, @HamiltonNolan

Are these akin to the Breitbart comments about which you cautioned me?

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BenMedia's avatar

Ah...are you mad I called you for your bigotry and genocidal rhetoric?

Cry me a river.

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John Loudon's avatar

Dude. You’re cussing so you’re losing.

Your contrived “you’re racist” argument is amusing as it’s so predictable from the Left.

Rather than debating facts using terms in context, applied equally to both sides, your side prefers to dehumanize people with opposing views with name calling.

So don’t flatter yourself. Only someone in power or whom I respect can make me mad.

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BenMedia's avatar

"Dude. You’re cussing so you’re losing."

Tone policing. I don't care if you like it or not.

"Your contrived “you’re racist” argument is amusing as it’s so predictable from the Left."

Projection. People like you throw around the term antisemite to smear anyone who criticizes Israel.

"Rather than debating facts using terms in context, applied equally to both sides, your side prefers to dehumanize people with opposing views with name calling."

Projection. I bring up facts constantly, people like you ignore them. People like you dehumanize an entire group of people (Palestinians) and support genocide against them. And no, I'm not going to condemn both sides equally when one's carrying out a genocide and the other isn't.

Let me explain this simple concept to you: Palestinians deserve human rights. If you can't agree with that simple premise, go fuck yourself (oh, are you going to whine about me cussing again because you don't understand people curse when they're angry or passionate about something).

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