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In mainstream Western media, it largely depends on group victim and privilege points of individual actual victims. You're not going to hear about the suffering
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
In mainstream Western media, it largely depends on group victim and privilege points of individual actual victims. You're not going to hear about the suffering of any individual Palestinian child while you are going to see a 30-minute biopic of an Israeli child playing nonstop. And "Support for Palestinians is antisemitism" screams Likud and ADL, while Jewish Voice for Peace and Combatants for Peace urging nonviolent solidarity and peace are banned, silenced, and ignored. This is the insanity of so-called liberal neoliberal left media beating the drums to war with authoritarian hardliner war hawks who want endless cycles of violence where only a political solution can lead to the lasting peace ordinary people need and deserve. This response to the "third intifada" is repeating the historical failures of America in Afghanistan and Iraq by a corrupt leader who was on his way to prison with a convicted racist in tow. Every civilian life lost is a tragedy, but unfortunately some lives are deemed more equal than others in the eyes of the mainstream media who have the power to put their thumb on the scale.