emptywheel on Twitter: "I ask again: Why are we calling Yemen a famine rather than genocide?"

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1. Matt Voldness‏ @MattVoldness 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  probably because we'd have to admit we're complicit in the genocide
  
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1. sabrina4bernie‏ @sabrina68 20 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel @malkabethwendy
  
  The same reason we don't call American mass murderers Terrorists. The War Machine controls the language they want us to use to justify their unjustifiable war crimes. WE can call it #SaudiGenocideInYemen whether they like it or not.
  
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1. Gene Penise‏ @GenePenise 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  A "siege" is the tactic. Famine & genocide are the results. The media acknowledges the latter while abdicating responsibility to name the former.
  
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1. Paul D‏ @Paulmd199 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  It's not a genocide when our friends do it.
  
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1. J Pierpont Morgan‏ @pierpont_morgan 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  Worthy v unworthy victims. Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky
  
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1. dole bludger‏ @neville_oz 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  Same reason why we keep calling it a civil war
  
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1. SenorColdRiver‏ @SenorGreyGoose 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  And why does 60 Minutes refuse to mention the US role?
  
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1. BC‏ @liesagreedupon 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  Recently passed Ed Herman cowrote a whole book on this. Key nugget below. https://libcom.org/files/Edward_Herman_and_David_Peterson_The_Politics_of_Genocide__2010.pdf …pic.twitter.com/1zDa2NsF1b
  
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1. Robert A Dorrough‏ @RobertADorrough 19 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel @freespeechlover
  
  We'd have to act in the case of a genocide under the UN Convention. Besides, you'd need to gather news about Yemen from sources other than main-stream-media. Also, average American can't find it on a map. We should rename Yemen,"the country where all the coffee originated from."
  
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1. Jeff Hauser‏Verified account @jeffhauser 20 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  Saudi money.
  
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1. Diani Barreto‏ @deCespedes 20 Nov 2017
  Replying to @emptywheel
  
  Oh, this horrifically murderous and cynical debate again? Old enuf to remember Rwanda , — how long it took at UN for all to agree it was a “proper” genocide?
  
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