Bdzyd

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Student of the world, current events junkie, environmentalist, international person of mystery
Show threadBdzydFeb 4, 2025

@atomicpoet @hyc I hear what you're trying to say, and I also see how that nuance is walked right past by the majority of people who discuss pro-Palestine voters. It's like being anti-woke. Thinly veiled racism.

I agree that sitting out the last election was a terrible idea. I agree that it didn't accomplish anything pro Palestine at all. AND I also see this discourse centering on pro Palestine voters as the primary cause of Trump's win for the racism that it is. Both are true.

Show threadBdzydFeb 4, 2025
@hyc @atomicpoet consider the impact of the blame on an already marginalized group. What benefit does this blame have for anyone? Simple answers, "Gaza abstainers are to blame for Kamala's loss" are never completely true, and generally serve to stop further inquiry and discussion. Blame helps no one, but it certainly hurts the ones being blamed.
Show threadBdzydFeb 3, 2025
@atomicpoet absolutely. And the majority of voters who sat this election out and who didn't bat an eyelash about Gaza are just as culpable or more than those that did so for human rights reasons.
Show threadBdzydFeb 3, 2025
@hyc @atomicpoet so 71% of Biden voters sitting out this past election did not do it because of Gaza. Thank you for giving evidence to my point.
Show threadBdzydFeb 3, 2025
@Peter_Link @palestine @israel so 71% of Biden voters who chose not to vote last year didn't do it because of Gaza. Got it. Your prejudice is showing.
Show threadBdzydJan 27, 2025

@atomicpoet This argument isn't convincing absent data showing a significant portion of voters actually did this.

It feels like a pile on to an already suffering community. Palestinians don't owe us anything. Americans and Arab Americans don't owe us anything. "Progressives" is not a measurable demographic to my knowledge.

I consider myself progressive and pro Palestine, I live in an arab country, vote in a state that makes overseas voting hard, and I voted for Kamala.
Stop the blame game.

BdzydJan 10, 2024
MMR NmdJan 10, 2024

"Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel, CNN’s Jerusalem bureau is subject to the rules of the Israel Defense Forces’ censor, which dictates subjects that are off-limits for news organizations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit or unsafe to print.
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In order to obtain a press pass in Israel, foreign reporters must sign a document agreeing to abide by the dictates of the censor."

And when they can't control the press, like say, #AlJazeera, they simply kill all the journalists working for the media outlet.

110 journalists killed, and counting.

#FreedomOfPress #CNN #Gaza #Censorship

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/

CNN Runs Gaza Coverage Past Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of IDF Censor

The Jerusalem bureau has long reviewed all CNN stories relating to Israel and Palestine. Now, it’s helping shape the network’s coverage of the war.

The Intercept
Show threadBdzydJan 10, 2024
@jbaert I was thinking about curation of content just last night.
BdzydJan 10, 2024
Jeroen BaertJan 10, 2024
Where have all the websites gone? https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
Where have all the websites gone?

It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.

from jason
BdzydDec 29, 2023
Church of JeffDec 28, 2023