Super powers being reluctant to name it a genocide due to political reasons doesn't make it such that there isn't a massive population displacement underway as the retaliation for oct 7. We all dance around human rights abuses in China without calling it out publicly for reasons of international trade.
Can you cite a source on the us killing 500k babies in Iraq? That sounds too horrific to be true.
In 1996, on CBS’s 60 Minutes, journalist Lesley Stahl asked then–U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about reports that half a million Iraqi children had died because of sanctions. Stahl said: “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Albright replied:
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”
same way a cold can have the same symptoms as a flu, doesn't mean they are the same thing.
not to say its a not bad thing, people want to use the word genocide because they want to associate it with hitler as thats the west's worst ever enemy.
So if you parallel current acts to the worse case scenario, you make a strong emotional case to sway people to your side.
personally, if I am using that word, I’m referring strictly to its definition under Article II of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention — acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.
This post was edited by ferdia on Oct 6 2025 12:31am