After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby
After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby
The media ran wall-to-wall front page stories on the fake claim Hamas beheaded babies. Now it's a Palestinian baby beheaded, they're silent
Legacy media is only interested in whitewashing Israeli crimes.
Complicit in*
the silence after this comment is called "tacit approval." See the problem, media?
No shock here. A majority of the world is on a stance of “anything/anyone against the state of Israel is antisemitism”. This is such a false equivalency. Just because something/someone is against what the government of Israel, does not mean it/they are hateful towards the Jewish people. Hell, making such an equivalency is placing actually Jewish people in an unintended hate group.
It's not majority of the world, it's majority of the people in power.
We've had sort of a revolution (or a reaction, however you want it) in the last 30 years, where a certain kind of people felt threatened by all the wisdom of the kind you get from reading Hannah Arendt or frankly anything intelligent and morals-related I can think of, and I think USSR finally dissolving galvanized them - both in their fears coming true when a totalitarian state fell, and in their hopes getting up when people just like them took power in ex-Soviet states.
It's a very strong principle - making human rights really a value, making genocide really a crime, making it clear that you owe nothing you haven't borrowed, and so on, are in direct conflict with a certain understanding of the world order. But antisemitism as a specific case is connected to the experience of WWII, which is an important foundational myth (not meaning it didn't happen) of the modern world. So one has to maneuver.
Now, that certain understanding and that kind of people are not marked by anything notable - that's actually their main quality. That's people who are sufficiently social to bunch together, but insufficiently creative, intelligent and romantic to care about good, evil and duty. Their main achievements in our world are all about gaslighting and stealing.
Such people are the most likely to have power today. Their power exists because of organizations and faceless groups being above the human, because when it's not so, they are irrelevant.
It's a temporary situation just like anything else, of course, because the described culture cannot maintain structures control over which gives them power. It's enshittification of nations, one can say.
Majority of the government in the West. I am sure if you start reading news from arabic media you will see a completely different story.
The problem is that international law is applied differently based on the country abusing it. And Israel is trying to shape the news perspective, by its bot army in English speaking of outlets and pushing hard a media campaign trying to discredit everyone who is not acting according to their interest.
Their foreign minister is posting some despicable videos and trying to link Spain and Hamas and claim that Spain is complicit in war crimes is nothing but despicable and shows the morale of all their government.
If I criticize the government of Venezuela it doesn’t mean I hate all Latinos.
Let me introduce you to an interesting theory.
Inventing reality by Michael Parenti is also a great read
Yeah but israel also burnt babies alive surely the media would be in shambles about tha...
I fully believe you (and I can't believe I'm asking for this) but do you have a source?
‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp
He raced towards the sound, terrified for his wife, children and friends. A vision of hell lay ahead, so gruesome he started shaking from shock. “I saw bodies everywhere. Children burning. I saw heads without bodies, the injured running around in pain, some alive but trapped inside burning tents.”
Dude there's videos online but they're obscenely graphic.
I fully believe you (and I can’t believe I’m asking for this) but do you have a source
wait so, why would you believe someone and then ask for a source?
Why not just like, ask for a source? You can ask someone for a source while still believing them, you might just want more information for example.
Sounds about right. The Israel Lobby is fucking strong.
Joy Reid of MSNBC went on record yesterday saying she finally saw the actual beheaded
IsraeliPalestinian baby photosfrom October 7th.Is there anything substantiated with this?I'll see if I can find the program and block.
Edit: Found it — The ReidOut - Podcast - May 28, 2024 @~28m23s
Edit 2: I got the context wrong. Thanks @Psychodelic@lemmy.world for the correction.
I just listened to this, it's actually a bit before your timestamp, but based on the context of the conversation there having, it seems like they're talking about actually seeing the dead Palestinian kids. When she says "them" it seems to me like she's saying we've now actually seen decapitated kids, whereas as before we only had hearsay
Thanks, I'll re-listen and edit. I certainly don't want to cast an unwarranted aspergion.
Edit: You're absolutely correct, the dialog required careful attention. I'll fix my post.
Surely this baby will be the one that tips libs off that this may in fact be a genocide, right? Or do we have to wait for more for them to wake up?
At this point, they’re just stuck in denial
Where can I find the actual video of the decapitations? It looks like uploads might be taken down? Tons of tweets saying it's everywhere on the internet, but I don't use Twitter and I can't find any uploads.
man, it's almost like hyper politicized, hyper-narrative stories. Don't actually do much, or something.
Wondering how long it's going to take the media, and people to realize that war is just, bad. Wait until you guys find out what russia has done to their domestic population, as well as ethnic minority groups, and prisoners. Remember the sledge hammer video? Yeah, me too.
Says the "media"
Just for clarity, beheading and decapitation are different. This uses the same word incorrectly to draw a parallel to two different things.
No they aren't.
Decapitate is used in the definition of behead.
Behead is used in the definition of decapitate. What kind of weird-ass apologia are you doing here anyway.
You're trying to deflect from a story about murdered Palestinian children with a "Well, ackchyually...."
What a piece of shit
Oh my god, shut the fuck up.
Thank God, I was worried for a brief moment.
I'm not sure how material the difference is, but you're correct: beheading is deliberate decapitation. I assume they're just being sloppy about definitions.
I'm pretty sure that dropping a 2000lb bomb on a refugee camp is deliberate.
Thanks for informing us. Of course you know this isn't the most important thing about this, but at least I learned something new.