• 🃏Joker@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 month ago

    I am genuinely curious, what kind of academic are you?

    I am asking because I didn’t understand why your credentials would benefit your comment and why did you feel the need to mention it before stating your opinion on a anonymous community.

    You might be joking when you are saying that you are academic, but I am asking in case you where serious.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      Probably playing off of this part of the article:

      "[…] I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision.

      • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Pretty much - most of us (scholars being a synonym for academics, a set I do belong to [lectureship in mathematics and statistics]) agree that bombing the homes of people into rubble and striking the camps they flee to is an intentional attempt to erase a cultural group.

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          1 month ago

          Your field of study is not directly relevant here (unless you work to figure out the death toll, maybe). However scholars that do study genocide do now seem to agree that the killing of Palestinians by Israel is a genocide.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Indeed.

        @joker@sh.itjust.works - moreso tactfully pointing out we must be aware of credential inflation and to avoid reliance on appeals to authority?

        The naïve optimist in me wants the @HexesofVexes@lemmy.world of the world to keep on revealing their backgrounds as it adds to discussions for me. Disappointing that I should be more skeptical.