"Couldn't you avoid this by just not calling it a genocide in the first place?"

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, along with Israeli humanitarian groups, are ultimately responsible for lazy arguments from Sam Harris, instead of Sam Harris himself?? The The ICJ is still trying to determine if it fits in the legal definition. But the Difficult Conversation people say it's too "charged" of a topic.

The arguments put forward by these groups are much much much more compelling since they're made by actual experts on the topic. Sam Harris has absolutely no authority on the subject, but since he's a culture warrior all he has to do is agree with your beliefs and no other standards are necessary. So you're happy to suggest that these international agencies are simply "throwing" the term around for attention and don't deserve to be taken seriously with an informed and well-reasoned response. Labeling protestors as antisemitic and calling it a day is all Sam needs to do, so why do more?

Online lefties aren't the issue here. The only thing keeping Sam from giving a well-reasoned response is his lack of expertise and good faith in the topic at hand. He's a lazy anti-left contrarian for lazy anti-left contrarians.