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> She hopes that the world hasn’t forgotten about her. No, we haven't. And we also haven't forgotten about the war crimes she published.
by chinathrow 10y ago
> She hopes that the world hasn’t forgotten about her.
No, we haven't. And we also haven't forgotten about the war crimes she published.
- gambiting 10y agoHmm I'm not sure. I'm not from US, and while I am very familiar with Edward Snowden, I have never heard of Chelsea Manning, I had to do a wiki search to read a bit about her. I guess the international coverage just wasn't the same in her case.
- Freak_NL 10y agoThat honestly surprises me. Where are you from? In the Netherlands all major news sources reported on this the past few years.
- gambiting 10y agoPoland.
- Freak_NL 10y agoThank you, that might explain it somewhat. Although you are still blessed with a free press — and your major newspapers do appear to have reported on this issue up to 2014 — mainstream media now seems dominated by other interests. The way PiS is trying to control the public discourse is worrying; at least from an outside perspective.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoShe was more famous under "Bradley" before she came out as trans. Maybe that rings a bell?
- riprowan 10y agoUnfortunately you are pointing directly at a major reason why the world forgot about Bradley Manning the war crimes exposer: she changed her name to Chelsea Manning and the media story changed to transgenderism / trans rights. So, basically the media story and the name changed / got more complex, and a lot of people got left behind / quit caring.
- rhino369 10y agoAlso, it's harder to make the case that Manning was a whistleblower. Manning just dumped as much classified intel info wikileaks as she could. More of a disgruntled employee than freedom crusader IMO.