Despite President Biden's recent calls for a 6-week ceasefire amid the war between Israel and Gaza, leading progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders tells "Face the Nation" that "the United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children." "That should be clear: No more money to Netanyahu's war machine to kill Palestinian children," Sanders said.
While it does get grating to keep hearing men excluded as if they’re all combatants, the less cynical interpretation is that woman and children are unambigiously non-combatants. In the overall context of the incredibly dehumanizing language used to describe these killings it’s probably one of less harmful framings in my view.
It’s simply a way to tug on the heart strings of people who know nothing of war.
Oh I misread your comment. Nevermind, you’re someone who takes joy in the death of civilians but is hung up on the use of language about men?
Not hung up on anything, tbh. Pointing out a red herring.