Of the articles surveyed on Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, 87% chose not to call it ethnic cleansing.

Recent coverage of Gaza and the West Bank illustrates that, while corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Originally it was. Now, in the aftermath of said ethnic cleansing, it’s like a byword for genocide-lite.

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggleEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      The term kind of has the implication that things will be less dirty and more organised when it’s done.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Pretty much. The Nazis thought of their thing that way, and as Wikipedia points out even used similar language, but fascists don’t need more than a paper thin justification for why it’s totally different this time to keep their rhetoric going. It’s not based on logic, after all, and anyone making the obvious historical comparisons can just be cast as more victimisation of them for their “honesty”.

        We all are pretty comfortable calling Bosnia a genocide now, though, so they’ve moved on to new euphemisms like “remigration”.