• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Every time there’s an article of a report confirming “yes, this looks, smells and feels like a genocide”, there’s always a statement of “nuh uh it’s not” included from the government perpetrating it.

    Like if someone is accused of murder or manslaughter, does the news get a statement from the accused and publish them saying “uh, no I didn’t, he probably just tripped and fell” or something?

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      1 month ago

      Actually, yes. It happens quite often that the papers print that someone was arrested or stands trial but claims to be innocent.

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      1 month ago

      Like if someone is accused of murder or manslaughter, does the news get a statement from the accused and publish them saying “uh, no I didn’t, he probably just tripped and fell” or something?

      I mean… Yes? That seems like a very basic fact for them to report.

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        1 month ago

        That is true, but the article gives a very significant chunk for the Israeli government to excuse themselves when typically the statement would be at the end.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah that’s fair. You don’t need to give them a ton of space

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      1 month ago

      What would you expect them to say? Has there ever been a government in history that committed a genocide and admitted to it while they were doing it (without having lost a war to an invading army)?

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        It don’t expect them to say differently, I expect the press to write the statement at the end very briefly rather than so thoroughly and prominently in the middle.