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I’m all for holding journalists to account, but I think they gave away the game when their main takeaway from reading that article was to complain that a terror
by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
I’m all for holding journalists to account, but I think they gave away the game when their main takeaway from reading that article was to complain that a terrorist was treated unfairly using a weak comparison to another group they likely have less sympathetic feelings towards. It was very clearly an attempt at whataboutism between black lives matter and the Waco bombing.
- ConspiracyFact 2y agoThe “Waco bombing”…?
- like_any_other 2y agoYou are conflating different parts of my post, and summarizing them in highly misleading ways. I'm not complaining that the Guardian is treating McVeigh unfairly - I'm complaining that they're lying about him - or at a minimum, stretching the truth. And I'm not using the comparison to BLM for this - that is a completely separate, independent complaint. And has nothing to do with my feelings towards or the merits of BLM - it is to illustrate how opportunistic the Guardian is being in which group they associate with which tragedy. E.g. they didn't associate the defenders of the federal government or gun control with the Waco massacre, or (certain) anti-law-enforcement activists, or any of the other #resist groups, with McVeigh. It is transparent propaganda, and I am frankly shocked others don't see it.
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