Why Gaza Isn’t a Genocide

We dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. Right? You might quibble with that. You might think that was a war crime. horrific evil. It wasn't a genocide. And no one calls it a genocide. We we vaporized 100,000 people instantaneously. And then we killed another 100,000 slowly by radiation poisoning and fire and infection. No one calls that a genocide. No serious person calls that a genocide and no human rights organization calls that a genocide. Amnesty International does not call that a genocide. But do you know what they call the war in Gaza? A genocide. That's the moral confusion. They We know it's we know our dropping atomic bombs on Japan wasn't a genocide because what did we do after Japan surrendered? We went in there and we occupied them and we rebuilt their society. And by 1952 when we left they were they had ceased to be our enemies. They were our allies. Right? At no point did anyone think that our goal was to eradicate the world of Japanese people. Right? So that's what a genocide is that the eradication project. And the fact that people are confused about what this word means is culturally appalling. Right? and and but this confusion has been engineered by people who know what they're doing. People think that somehow dumbing down the definition of genocide to mean simply too much death and destruction and war, we need a moral vocabulary that distinguishes the people who are really trying to eradicate everyone of a certain type, whatever that type is, right? Men, women, and children. People don't know what actual genocides are like if they think what happened in Gaza is a genocide.