Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name
Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name
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Media Afraid to Call Ethnic Cleansing by Its Name
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.
Isn't "ethnic cleansing" itself a euphemism for genocide?
I think "ethnic cleansing" is a subset of genocide.
You are correct. Genocide encompasses ethnic, national, racial, or religious groups.
https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf
Other way round. Genocide is a type of ethnic cleansing.
No, ethnic cleansing does not necessarily imply killing. It is the forced depopulation of an area, which can be by means of deportation, economic pressure, threat of violence, etc. Genocide is the most extreme form of ethnic cleansing.
Genocide also doesn't imply killing.
Originally it was. Now, in the aftermath of said ethnic cleansing, it's like a byword for genocide-lite.
The term kind of has the implication that things will be less dirty and more organised when it's done.
It can also mean displacement while genocide means the destruction, in whole or part, of a people. Things like the trail of tears are both: People were displaced, also, the US cared so little about native's lives that a quarter of the displaced straight-out died, which constitutes genocide. But it's in principle possible, and has occasionally happened, that the displacement doesn't go hand-in-hand with murder.