I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The BBC didn’t call the IRA terrorists. I think they’ve earned the right to not apply that label to anybody.

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            1 year ago

            Lmao, you’re seriously linking to a deleted comment to try to make your case?

            Laws are, by definition, a legal opinion— which can be overturned, by the way, by another legal opinion. The only fact here is that it is, is some jurisdiction, a law.

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        1 year ago

        That just is not the point. I mean, if you are involved in the conflict you can totally believe in anything, but the point is in the moment you call them terrorist and call it a day you lost any possibility to analyze the situation and understand WTF is happening and why.

        BBC is not saying they are NOT terrorists, but it does not matter in this context.