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by minkles 639 days ago
This is a straw man argument. I designate you as a banana! There, the word banana is now meaningless.

It is quite well defined.

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The word is notoriously ill-defined, so much in fact that most newspapers of record will not use it [1]

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/standards-editor/article-und...

My point is that countries designate groups of people as "terrorists" all the time for political reasons. Here's another example: "Venezuela: UN experts condemn use of counter-terrorism laws to convict trade unionists and labour leaders"

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/08/venezuela-un...

Yes, and his point is that "terrorism" is still a meaningful term for groups like Hamas.

But we know you understand this.