# Smapti is Pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907 "2014-05-21T08:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1864
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1864 "2024-12-28T16:44:51Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > The Gaza/Hamas/Israel stuff does not belong here. Reaction to that belonged perfectly cromulently in the Pit thread for that it came from on that very topic, and @puzzlegal has very sensibly followed up there: > [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/2211): > > That is a really ugly thing to say about a group of human beings. Even about human beings who are each individually culpable of something bad. And Gazans, whether or not you consider them an ethnicity, are not defined by their actions but by accidents of birth and residence. Gazans are a group of human beings with widely varying backgrounds. There are newborn Gazans, and pacifist Gazans. There are lots of Gazans who aren’t culpable of anything deserving death. Even Israel claims that every Gaz… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907)._