Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
by catlikesshrimp on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:41PM
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You cathegorize that as genocide when it is directed at a very specific group. Like jews in WWII, now it is Palestinians in their own country.
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Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
by hersko on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:54PM
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That is not at all what a genocide is.
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
by catlikesshrimp on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:40PM
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https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
"Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals"
In this case, the target includes Hamas members, but the target group is Palestinians. Israel recently passed a law to allow hanging of Palestinians when [conditions]
Re:Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
by george916a on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:23PM
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No.
Here’s the difference between real genocide and appropriation of the term.
Genocide is actual when a third of a people is annihilated just because they are not liked.
“Genocide” is an appropriated term when the population of the people supposedly “genocides” against actually INCREASES after “genocide”. After said people is warred upon after they attempted a real genocidal annihilation attack on its neighbors. The type of attack they are used doing. The type of attacks that allowed them to grow from a little tribe near Mecca to control most of the Middle East.