CNN talks about Palestinian deaths like its a natural disaster.
"Palestinian American family mourns 42 relatives killed in a single day in Gaza"
How exactly were they killed CNN? Was it an earthquake? A flood? Some sort of natural disaster? The number of videos I've seen of Palestinians who have lost entire generations of their families because they were bombed in their homes, facing western journalists with absolutely no empathy for them, is sickening.
A computer science professor was talking about his family member who was shot by IDF in the West Bank, and he had to preface that by saying "Hamas is not in the West Bank." The only thing another one of my fellow computer scientists had to say was "That's not true, there are many Hamas supporters in the West Bank." The dehumanization is so deep.
@timnitGebru Seeing the IDF murdering innocent people without repercussions might have something to do with the radicalization of the population. Just thinking out loud.
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In Australia News Trash (News Corp) have multiple masthead websites.
I checked their landing pages a short time ago, only one site mentions the bombing of a refugee camp.
@timnitGebru this is so true for many news outlets. Also, don’t let Palestine disappear from your mind. I see a perceived downtick on posts/mentions about Palestine. Are we so fickle we can’t hold space for several human disasters at the same time, that we can only grieve and speak to one thing at the time? Surely we have that capacity? #palestine#ceasefirenow
@timnitGebru They explain in the article that the cause is not known for sure. What's the problem with that? Do you think empathy is about not checking facts?
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