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
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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.
Hey, please remove the language "totalitarian" and be more specific with your language. We're finding a lot of holocaust trivialization recently and words like "totalitarian" and "authoritarian" can be used to blur the line
I guess USSR was democratic then.
Some context.
Additional context located under Leading Role of Communist Party. I would argue that one party/the federal government having full constitutional control over who's on the ballet leans more Authoritarian than Democratic.
I feel like reading through that just makes it feel like the USSR was more democratic back then than we are now.
I definitely can't argue with the world's constant decline towards fascism and authoritarianism. Though that doesn't discount the authoritarian tendencies that existed in the Soviet Union that stop it from qualifying as a true democracy.
I think it came closer to democracy as an ideal than any capitalist one tbh, especially before destalinization and the entrenchment of the bureaucracy that came with it.
Also the world isn't sliding toward fascism, that is just the US led imperial core as their power over the rest of the world slips. Plenty of places are freeing themselves right now, look to the west African confederation
Yes
This isn't an argument, please edit the comment.
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.
Its not just a false equivalence it's actually antisemitic most of these people are only pro israel because they think that israel is need for the final battle against Satan we love you because we need you to die lol
they think that israel is need for the final battle against Satan
Please explain?
As I understand it, the prophecy is that when the state of Israel is fully unified once more, and the temple of Solomon is rebuilt, Jesus will return and the second battle of Armageddon will commence.
End of the world, rapture of the believers into Heaven, the whole bit.
If I criticize the government of Venezuela it doesn’t mean I hate all Latinos.