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I don't think this is a deliberate ruse, but news organizations giving in to public pressure. I remember the NBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza in the days im
by aj_hackman 1y ago
I don't think this is a deliberate ruse, but news organizations giving in to public pressure. I remember the NBC coverage of the conflict in Gaza in the days immediately following October 7, and how their narrative swung rapidly as public consensus against the IDF developed.
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- nailer 1y agoThe public pressure against “the IDF” (but really against Jewish people) came from Qatari sponsorship of US higher education. If you dislike AIPAC you should dislike Qatar much more, for their budget is much higher.
- selimthegrim 1y agoQatar gave a great deal of money to Tulane University - if you want to call an insititution with a 40% Jewish student body anti-Semitic I don't know what to say to you.
- nailer 1y agoAre you saying the donation wouldn’t have an effect?
- selimthegrim 1y agoThey were not against the IDF as an institution.
- aj_hackman 1y agoI made a deliberate effort to neutralize my statement as much as possible. We could argue on this issue, but what we can't disagree on is the fact that there's an issue (which is all that's relevant to the point I was trying to make).
- nailer 1y agoSure but the public pressure “against the IDF” was manufactured. That’s an important point and relevant to the current discussion.
- kelipso 1y agoIt was manufactured by the IDF soldiers uploading videos of their war crimes to tiktok.
- aj_hackman 1y agoI was attempting to invoke Hanlon's Razor to rationalize the narratives being disseminated by news media, because I am exhausted by conspiratorial thinking. I chose the phrasing that I did in an effort to be as charitable as possible to both sides. I will not be badgered into wasting my time on an embarrassing and fruitless political debate on this orange website or any other.
- nailer 1y agoSo far we’ve had a genocide where the population increases, a destroyed hospital that was still standing, people begging for food from a photographer in a staged environment with no food being handed out, disabled children that look thin being used to fake starvation - if you’re exhausted by the conspiracy theorists you don’t to be as charitable as possible to them. Call them out.
- aj_hackman 1y agoNo.