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[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 136 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"If you can look at the situation and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time,"

This post on her part was fine, but the other one...not so much. She should have stuck with this one only, rather than whatever the frick murderous thing that other post was.

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Is there a quote for the other post? I heard it was just paraphrased, so we don't know what she actually said

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 56 points 1 year ago

Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she wrote on the platform on Saturday.

That's all. If you're very inattentive or deliberately misinterpreting her words, you'd think that she was endorsing Hamas as "freedom fighters".

But if you DO pay attention and know anything, you'll notice that she never mentions Hamas and know that Hamas aren't usually the ones filming any of their atrocities. Add her clarification from a few days later and it's clear that she did NOT endorse Hamas and is the victim of character assassination because she had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime:

I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that's what the Palestinian citizens are... fighting for freedom every day.

[-] Sivalente@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Holly shit the mental gymnastics here are astounding. You're just casually assuming that she is some kind of top geopolitical expert.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. I'm merely refraining from assuming without evidence that she's endorsing terrorism.

You don't have to be "some kind of top geopolitical expert" to know that Hamas don't tend to film their atrocities themselves and that oppressed Palestinians very often film the atrocities of the Israeli occupation forces.

If there's any mental gymnastics here, it's in confusing common knowledge for elite geopolitical expertise.

[-] Sivalente@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I think you don't realise how little knowledge "common knowledge" actually is. Peolple on lemmee arent you're average joe when it comes to geopolitical knowledge. I am not dismissing her knowledge eitherx but i believe you are overestimating it.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah because a Lebanese-American public figure who sympathises with the plight of Palestine has NEVER had to answer bad faith arguments equating Hamas with all Palestinians and would thus have NO need for more knowledge about the methods of them than your average inattentive and incurious casual ingester of pro-regime billionaire-owned American news! 🙄

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of how planet of the apes was suddenly about antisemitism...

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