• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Right, but war implies it isn’t one side being massacred by the other because they don’t really have any army to fight back with.

    Calling the Gaza Genocide a war hides the fact that there isn’t really any kind of armed resistance to Israel and that they’re just straight up trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza while colonizing it.

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      3 hours ago

      Hides it from who? Some dude who has lived under a rock and thinks a war of aggression is a good thing?

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Some dude who has lived under a rock and thinks a war of aggression is a good thing?

        Not everyone is completely up on current events, and no one said it was a good thing.

        Our words shape our thoughts. Call it like it is and don’t hide behind linguistics to soften the blow. Also, calling it a war is exactly what Israel wants, since calling it the genocide that it is makes them look all the more worse and keeps their genocidal actions in the forefront of the conversation.

        Just call it what it is and stop using words that diminish he horrors that Israel is doing. Or keep calling it a war and playing into the Israeli propaganda.