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After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby (www.thecanary.co)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think intent is required. Behead's definition says "cut off the head of (someone), especially as a form of execution." The especially part means it isn't exclusive to that.

Both Be-head and De-capit(ate) = Off-head

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I think this is just one of those "language is complicated" things. I'm seeing multiple definitions out there. I don't know really how much it matters, it starts to approach a semantic argument and getting away from the actual concrete events that have occurred.