“It’s slander to claim I approved of what they did. I don’t. I simply understand why they made that choice, and believe that it was justifiable under the law.”
No it would be slander if I called you a moron or 13 kinds of stupid. Now that would be slander. But I would never do that. :-)
I could also call you a number of things that would get me banned. But, I would never do that, either.