GrayBackgroundMusic comments on Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed right now

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

side note: ethnically cleansed is a horrible phrase. I know it doesn't mean the face value but it sounds terrible.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I mean, yeah, but there aren't many more palatable phrases forbidden appears to be happening here.

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[–] VAK@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Sorry but what's the face value meaning?

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

other than calling it genocide, which is the same thing.

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[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

Ethnic Cleansing includes displacement of a population. Genocide does not.

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