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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wonder what he died of? Weird that the headline phrasing is so vague and passive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if you click on the link it’s actually a whole article

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...and that still doesn't change the fact that the headline is using passive language to lessen the impact of this boy's death. You see this shit with police killings too; they say someone, "Died in police custody," rather than, "Killed during a violent arrest." Betty White died, this kid was killed in an air strike.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

mb I didn’t get that you were trying to convey that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I love how Americans kill half my people, refuse to even acknowledge it. Suddenly they're on to the next news story and morally grand standing and patting their own backs, while calling everyone else murderers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe, just maybe, the Americans who support Palestinians aren't the same Americans who are support our genocidal military industrial complex.

70% of Americans want an immediate ceasefire. 75% Americans are opposed to any increases in military spending (56% want a decrease: https://afsc.org/news/most-us-adults-support-pentagon-spending-cuts). So please understand that the US government is a plutocracy that doesn't represent the will of the American people anymore than Putin represents the majority of Russians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Americans are not a hive mind. The ones who mourn his loss are not the ones in power happily sending aid to Israel. Just like not every Palestinian participated in Oct 7.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

BBC says “alleged airstrike”. For anyone questioning how media is helping “washing” the genocide.

It goes like this:

  1. use passive language as much as you can when you dont like what happen
  2. use suggestive language to blame hamas
  3. mention how it all started in october 7
  4. mention 1200 killed by hamas ignoring “idf” Hannibal directive.
  5. mention number of people in Gaza reported earlier this year, make sure to say hamas runs the health ministry who reported this number.
  6. dont mention starving children, lack of food, water, and vaccine.
  7. dont mention any “idf” act of genocide like killing their own hostage waving a white flag or the international court genocide case.
  8. pretend that you have nothing to do with it
  9. make sure to include “idf” statement or that they are doing an investigation.
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