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Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales has entered the Talk page for the Gaza genocide article and says in his opinion calling it genocide is a violation of NPOV (Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy) (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/palestine@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Value judgements? Genocide is an objective thing. It’s clearly defined, with zero “good vs evil” involved in its definition.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It is clearly defined, but deciding what fits that definition and what doesn't is not at all objective, it totally depends on which side you're on. And since accusing somebody of something implies you're yourself innocent, accusing of genocide is saying "they bad we good", thus dehumanizing "them" as irrational "bad" and rejecting the attempt to understand the conflict in its entirety and in its controversial nature.

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