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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's literally the definition of the phrase.

Ethnically cleansing an area, is ensuring an ethnicity is removed, or cleansed from the area.

I'm sorry you disagree with the dictionary, reality must be really difficult to deal with. But we have to deal with the reality we're presented with, and not the reality we would like

I did not agree with you on either of those statements.

You haven't brought it up, but I might as well head off the next issue, it is a genocide:

https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

It is agreed that it is a genocide

[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

curiously enough, bolding your words doesnt make them true. funny, innit?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were bolded because i was using the same rhetorical device the other commenter was using right back at them, telling your speaking partner that they agreed to something they haven't agreed to

[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

I dunno, I went back and read through the comments again to see if I had misinterpreted it and it really just seems like you two are splitting hairs.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it is not tribal murder. Genocide means racial or tribal murder. Use the correct language.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can only use the definitions in the dictionary, in the Wikipedia, and the UN. I'm not going to go with your off-the-cuff rejection of the dictionary.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not going to go with your off-the-cuff rejection of the dictionary.

Latin, a language used for thousands of years is far from off-the-cuff.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pointless for us to argue over dictionary definitions.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Latin is pretty basic, says what it means by design.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

English... we are speaking English.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agreed, I wont use Latin, I don't know it. As a bonus, I wont use greek either.

I'll stick to English as defined by a dictionary

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You probably know more latin than you realize. Ad lib, Alias, Alibi ,Alma mater ,Alter ego, Ante meridiam/Post meridiam, Bona fide ,Carpe diem, Caveat, Consensus, Ergo, Et cetera, In memoriam, Magnum opus, Per capita, Per se, Pro bono, Status quo, Veni vidi vici, Verbatim, and Vice versa are latin words that are still commonly used across all languages.