Larry Sanger
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, sure.
Right.
So, I mean, just look at the very first sentence there.
The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people.
Right.
So it doesn't say it is a hypothesis or it is the widely held view or anything like that.
It's talking about the thing itself, which actually exists.
It's a genocide and it involved in the ongoing intentional and systematic destruction of people in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people.
If it really was a genocide, then I'm certainly against it.
But I'm now talking about...
whether such a statement is neutral in the context of an encyclopedia.
And no, it clearly is not neutral because there are people with skin in the game, a lot of them actually, who disagree with it.
Something like the bombardment of Gaza is represented by Palestinians and their many allies as a genocide.
And as part of a war campaign by Israelis.
I see.
Something like that.
Sure.
Well, and if you wanted to say that the...
the topic properly should be the very notion that there was a genocide in Gaza, then what you would say is the Gaza genocide accusation or something like that.
In other words, there would be some sort of distancing device used in the very title and, of course, in the first sentence.