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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton slams anti-Israel protests on college campuses, says students have been fed propaganda [View all]Beastly Boy
(9,743 posts)And it is shocking indeed to suggest that a legal term is interchangeable with populist sentiment of the day. Just as shocking is the presumption that unfounded conclusions carry any resemblance to due process of law.
"Some people" say all sorts of stuff, and it does not reflect on the law one bit. But when people say "genocide", they are referring to a specific crime, and when they say "guilty of genocide", they are referring to guilt of a crime already established by a legal authority on the subject. And when "some people" refer to a specific crime as if it had been established beyond doubt, it is a false reference which misappropriates a legal term to deceitfully attribute the weight of legal authority to their sentiments.
Just as "even though he has not been tried and convicted or acquitted of genocide, yet" falsely presumes, in order to make your sentiment appear to have some sort of legal foundation, that the trial is imminent in the near future.