…Saturday’s exchange offered a revealing view of the outsized role US corporate media play in the general dehumanization of the Palestinian people—an approach that conveniently coincides with the Middle East policy of the United States, which is predicated on the obsessive funneling of hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance and weaponry to Israel’s genocidal army. And now that President Donald Trump has decided that the US can take over Gaza by simply expelling its inhabitants, well, dehumanizing them may serve an even handier purpose.
Granted, it’s a lot easier for a news report to tell the individual stories of three people than to tell the stories of 183. But the relentless empathetic media attention to the three Israeli men—who, mind you, are not the ones currently facing a genocide—deliberately leaves little to no room for Palestinian victims of an Israeli carceral system that has for decades been characterized by illegal arbitrary detention, torture and in-custody death.
So it is that we learn the names and ages of the three Israelis, the names of their family members, and empathy-inducing details of their captivity and physical appearance, while the 183 Palestinians remain at best a side note, and at worst a largely faceless mass of newly freed terrorists…
Not OP but… Lemmy, Tiktok, even mainstream media itself. There was clearly an agenda to make Biden look bad and Trump look good.
I dunno, man. That would be a massive, coordinated effort—and lemmy is such a small community. Like 300,000 active users. So someone targeted this super niche platform? That’s just so unlikely.
TikTok, yeah. I could see multiple fronts pushing their own ideas, but to have one coordinated effort? It just doesn’t really seem feasible. Neither of us have proof of it happening or not, I’m just saying. It might be a little bias showing.
Edit: this is the kinda shit that scares me. People with generally the right worries, the right ideas of Justice and righteousness, seeing someone say something that doesn’t 100% fall in line with the magical reasoning something could, possibly be happening, you turn on them? Insane. You all need to learn some fuckin nuance. Learn that things aren’t black and white. Saying “hey, that doesn’t sound feasible” or “is there really any proof of that?” does not mean people disagree with your overall values.
It’s just crazy shit. I can’t even describe what makes it so disillusioning that otherwise smart and seemingly good people do this kind of shit. It’s just…sad. Are we really so segmented between ourselves and so goddamn uniform in our ideas that someone saying there is no proof of a wild conspiracy theory—even if we are all hoping for the same outcome—makes people turn against others who don’t 100% align with our ideas? It’s just depressing, man.