Genocide? This is in fact what genocide looks like:

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121. sigh...

I haven't read every post and comment on DU but I've seen enough here and other fora to have formed a pretty solid opinion about this.

1. Some people are literalists and want words such as genocide to be used adhering to the specific definition. I haven't seen such people deny that what's happening is horrific. We've had semantic conflicts on DU since its inception.

2. Speaking of words, the word Zionist has morphed in meaning over the years and it is another word thrown around a lot since October. I often want to ask what that word means to them but, shit, these threads are impossible.

3. I'm not a literalist and even when I have used the term genocide, if I say anything else about the ongoing horror in a quest to try to understand more, all I hear is "Oh, I guess genocide is okay with you."

Quite literally, if in discussing Israel-Palestine one doesn't ONLY talk about genocide being committed against Palestinians, anything else said is attacked. And, if any discussion about any other topic can be brought around to I/P, a certain contingent will do so, again with the accusation that "I guess you're okay with genocide."

So, yeah, the shutting down of discussion most definitely happens from that direction too.