Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name
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Recent coverage of Gaza and the West Bank illustrates that, while corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing.
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Isn't "ethnic cleansing" itself a euphemism for genocide?
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I think "ethnic cleansing" is a subset of genocide.
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Can we all just agree there is no "good" media? Journalism died for profits
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You are correct. Genocide encompasses ethnic, national, racial, or religious groups.
https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume 78/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf
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“Journalist” is not an ethnicity but they can be cleansed too.
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No, there are some great independent outlets that are still doing exceptional journalism. Many of the new outlets were founded by reporters who came from mainstream or traditional media but were either laid off or quit because of the profit-above-all-else mindset. As citizens and news consumers this means we have to be pickier and more discerning when it comes to what we read, because we can’t trust that we’ll get everything we need from just a single newspaper anymore. But if you look around you’ll still find some very high quality journalism, it’s just a bit more diffuse than we’re used to.
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Can someone AI a concise list of all the papers which refused to tell the truth from the article?
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The article itself claims that 87% of news outlets are avoiding the phrase “ethnic cleansing”. There are those that are calling it for what it is.
If you want an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/un-chief-warns-against-ethnic-cleansing-after-donald-trump-gaza-proposal -
No, ethnic cleansing does not necessarily imply killing. It is the forced depopulation of an area, which can be by means of deportation, economic pressure, threat of violence, etc. Genocide is the most extreme form of ethnic cleansing.
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Cut the bullshit
"Israel’s genocide in Gaza, launched in October 2023"
7th of October, when Israel decided for no reason to start a war. s/
When that shit is published on your site, I can't bother reading anything else. Wonder who runs this propoganda site.
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Genocide also doesn't imply killing.
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I feel like in common use it does. Some formal definitions don't require it, but then there's contradicting formal definitions.
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Originally it was. Now, in the aftermath of said ethnic cleansing, it's like a byword for genocide-lite.
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Y'all ever notice that arguments about how to call something steal oxygen away from what to do about it?
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass-murder are just words. Calling it a pumpkin pie won't bring back one dead child.
Reality is independent from language. Words borrow meaning, they're not the source of it.
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No, genocide is explicitly defined as:
the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide
-Cide is to kill or killing, and is derived from Middle French, from Latin -cida, from caedere to cut, kill
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Real, the genocide started on 1947.
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Other way round. Genocide is a type of ethnic cleansing.
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Yes, and you can destroy a group by means other than killing its members, such as forced sterilization, systematic abuse, or the transfer of children away from the community. It's the demo that's being killed, not necessarily its individual members.
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1929, Arab Muslims exterminate the Jewish community of Gaza that lived there to hundreds of years:
1947, Arab Muslims demand to own all the land, even Jewish owned land:
1948, still refusing to share, start a war to kill all Jews in the area and lose: How could the Jewzzzzzz be so Genocidal!!!1!1!1!
1948-60: Arab countries take ownership of all Jewish belonging and kick them out (with some mass murders in between):
1967: six days war Israel takes over Gaza and the West Bank
Peace agreements between Israel and Egypt and Jurden, they refuse to take back over the management of Gaza/West Bank cus shity population.
2000: Camp David, Israel offers Arafat a Palestinian country. He refuses cus he doesn't get all Israel.
Shit goes south from here.
2024: Hamas opens war on Israel, breaking a long ceasefire. Send militants into Israeli cities to murder civilans in their homes. Israel retaliate.
Retards - "how could Israel dooooo that?!?!?!?!"The "Palestinan leadership" missed every opertinity, and refused everything that doesn't include full ownership of the region. Including Jewish cities with communities that lived there from before Islam even existed.
Meanwhile Arabs inside Israel get equal rights and the younger generation gets into higher education and makes good money. Retards on lemmy: so genocide.
