Taylor Lorenz“The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful
Jerome (He/Him)@taylorlorenz if it’s antisemitic to care for the dead civilians caught in the crossfire of this political crusade then I am proud to be one.
Escarpment@jeromechoo @taylorlorenz But only for the civilians in this conflict and not the civilians dead in Haiti or Sudan. Not a peep about those civilians.
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@escarpment
The article addresses why people in different countries might focus on different wars about a quarter of the way through it.
@jeromechoo @taylorlorenz
The article addresses why people in different countries might focus on different wars about a quarter of the way through it.
@jeromechoo @taylorlorenz
@cgervasi @jeromechoo @taylorlorenz I don't see the specific strings "Haiti" or "Sudan" in the article. As is common, the bias can be seen in word counts. The string Israel occurs 11 times in that page. The string Hamas occurs 0 times. The strings "Gaza"/"Palestin" occur combined 8 times. And Haiti and Sudan get nary a mention because even the people who purport to care about humanitarian crises apparently don't care that much.
@escarpment @jeromechoo @taylorlorenz
If you're concerned these protests are drawing attention away from your efforts to help Sudan or Haiti, try using ChatGPT or #Kagi to summarize the articles instead of a string search. Better yet, read them; there's no substitute for that.
I'm sort of joking because I don't believe you're really concerned about criticism of the war in Gaza affecting efforts to stop other wars.
@cgervasi @jeromechoo @taylorlorenz I read the article first. Then I did the string search.
I'm not particularly concerned with any of these conflicts because I'm not convinced in a moral framework that obligates me to stop conflicts around the world. I'm just saying that *if* you ascribed to such a framework, for that framework to be logically consistent, you should care about all conflicts.