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

Oh, do conservatives care about racism now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

You usually provide a pretty good example

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

Hey, how about we not use phrases that can also be in support of genocide in some contexts? It kind of sounds like, what’s that phrase y’all like so much? Oh yeah, a DOG WHISTLE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Any word can be used as a dog whistle. Are you suggesting nobody ever say anything?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does that go the other way? The things you declare to be dog whistles can be dismissed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well of course we can dismiss everything out of hand. We wouldn't want to think now would we?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally aljazeera, and you were complaining about me using breitbart a few days ago. Pot, meet kettle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I linked aljazeera because they're on the pro-palestine side, making them a far better source to describe what is meant with this particular pro palestian chant.

Fox News is just doing a strawman.

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

They're owned by the state of Qatar, and they're biased in favor of them. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/

Qatar funds Hamas. Here's the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

Here's a reuters article about it if you don't trust wikipedia. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-cash-to-crypto-global-finance-maze-israels-sights-2023-10-16/

If you don't like Reuters, here's a 2015 NPR article. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/18/414693807/why-israel-lets-qatar-give-millions-to-hamas

So yeah, the state media of Qatar favors Hamas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is some woosh material right here. I am aware they are biased.

"The reds are saying "XYZ" How awful!!!" - Blue

"UVW" - Link to Reds website

My guy, I am aware. The point of linking to aljazeera is to show that they aren't actually saying "XYZ", they're saying "UVW". I'm pointing out that fox News is doing a strawman and supported my point by linking to a pro Palestinian biased source. But evidently that sailed right over your head.

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

Why would a pro-Palestinian biased source be a more trustable source of explanation on what the slogan means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Because they're the ones using it.

Instead of using strawman yall could be doing iron men.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thats not how that works. Qatar is not hamas, they support hamas but ultimately they put themselves first.

When they have an awful plan, theyre going to downplay it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's a strawman. I don't know how else to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The republican party that shouted Jews will not replace us? And the president that said there were very fine people?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-charlottesville-led-to-the-capitol-attack/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

“Very fine people” is the most out of context quote that is easily dismissed if you actually cared to research the full context. If you care so much about truth, and if reality had such a liberal bias, surely you’d want to be correct about this?