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| ▲ | aguaviva 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
One can quibble about the technical definition of genocide, or the degree of intent on the part of the perpetrators. But I don't see how one can say that 40,000+ largely civilian deaths (including around 15k women, minors and elderly) -- likely to eventually grow to easily 3x that amount (even if the war were to stop today) due to the long-term health impacts of the overall situation, according to people who study these things -- isn't "making a dent" in the population. Unless one implicitly considers that population to be, well, kind of not really human to begin with. Just imagine someone saying: "The Oct 7th attack was kind of messy I guess, but really, you can't say it was genocidal -- after all, it didn't even make a dent in Jewish population." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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