• Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    have you considered responding to instances of that happening, instead of downplaying the butchering or children because someone reported on said butchering

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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly the point. Nobody in the media or here on Lemmy or in any of the other outlets in general even cared when it happened. So instead we’ve created an environment where people have ignored one situation and are responding to another and it completely strips the entire conversation of the context that’s required to understand it.

      It’s like a routinely and sadistically bullied individual going into a school and shooting up the place. It’s deplorable, it’s unethical, but the context needs to be there for any honest conversation.

      How is anyone supposed to solve this mess if we’re not willing to look at root causes and original feelings from which this violence occurs?

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        Nobody even looks until the bullied kid has enough and decks the bully right in his fat, hypernationalist mouth, then the adults all freak out protecting the bully and the “aggressor” gets punished.

        Let’s not pretend the world is any different than a high school.

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          and decks the bully right in his fat, hypernationalist mouth

          its immensely depressing that the comparison of murdered children to a fat hypernarionalist getting decked made it all the way from your brain to your mouth without hitting a single hurdle

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          This is more like the bullied kid going on to shoot up a daycare that the bully’s mom/dad works at and killing indiscriminately.

          If you’re going to defend that kid because they were bullied, will you defend a survivor that brutally murders them in cold blood when they grow up? And every single person related to them?

          The only people who think everything is like high school are those who never mentally left it. Or are still in it.

      • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        i dont have a problem with adding context, i have a problem with downplaying the butchering of children

        Nobody in the media or here on Lemmy were in any of the other outlets in general even cared when it happened

        im assuming this is hyperbolic, if you actually never saw any sympathy for palestinians or mention of israels crimes on lemmy id be shocked

        even reddit regularly saw highly upvoted threads about israels borderline if not outright genocidal practices

        CNN, the organisation this article is from, has been reporting on it regularly

        In an interview with Israeli Government spokesperson Mark Regev earlier this week, CNN’s Jake Tapper said that Israel has killed more Palestinian children in the past three weeks of the military offensive in Gaza Strip than “the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006.”

        “If my calculations are right,” Tapper said, “Israel has, in the last three weeks, killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006, which includes the second Lebanon War, Operation Cast Lead, Operation Pillar of Defense, and now Operation Protective Edge.”

        The host of CNN’s The Lead continued putting the Israeli official in the hot seat by asking “at what point does the Israeli government say, enough, we’re killing too many innocent children?”