Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
It's a war. It's ****ing horrendous. People are dying by the bucket load and it's heartbreaking and disgraceful but yes, whether or not a genocide is happening is not for me or others to determine when there is a legal definition, no? The dynamics of the war for me are less about genocide and more about the two sides having vastly disproportionate military hardware, which guarantees greatly more suffering on one side than the other, with absolutely tragic consequences for Palestinians.

I'm not really interested in the debate tbh. I think it's being exploited and it actually doesn't help bring an end to it at all. So personally I think it wise to stick to a legal definition. Others can argue it out if they so wish. I don't think throwing the word around has helped the conflict end quicker.

Cue a barrage of abuse now. (Which is why I'm not really interested in the debate over the technical definition of a word)
You would have been (presumably) in favour of jail for gay people, against universal suffrage and pro slavery given, at the time, those were all illegal too. Or is the "law" an organic thing that eventually arcs towards justice and is incorrectly configured at present?