How on earth is this nonsense being platformed by the Times? Sure, some Israelis want that. Israel has a big problem with their far right wanting to expand settlements into Palestinian land. But...
“This was my home, without electricity, without gas,” the song goes as a soldier makes himself at home in the rubble of the damaged house before heading to the window and gesturing at a scene of destruction outside. The house was destroyed in late December, satellite imagery shows.
“It’s heartbreaking, inhumane,” Basel al-Sourani, an international human rights lawyer with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, a nonprofit organization based in Gaza City, told The Times, “and just demonstrates that the Israelis want you basically out of your home, the Gaza Strip.”
How on earth is this nonsense being platformed by the Times?
Sure, some Israelis want that. Israel has a big problem with their far right wanting to expand settlements into Palestinian land.
But THE Israelis want it? This douchebag's video on social media speaks on behalf of the whole nation wanting to kick all the Gazans out of Gaza? That's hyperbolic nonsense.
If we ban all articles that have a quote from a person saying something that someone could take issue with, we wouldn't have any articles posted. Just press releases.
If we ban all articles that have a quote from a person saying something that someone could take issue with, we wouldn't have any articles posted. Just press releases.
Where did I say we should ban anything? I'm criticizing The Times for printing the quote and giving a platform to the person and organization who said it.
Where did I say we should ban anything?
I'm criticizing The Times for printing the quote and giving a platform to the person and organization who said it.
Sorry, I misread "Times" as "Tildes", my mistake. Indeed, the NYT does have a history of platforming some highly questionable people, but I'm used to seeing that from their editorials.
Sorry, I misread "Times" as "Tildes", my mistake.
Indeed, the NYT does have a history of platforming some highly questionable people, but I'm used to seeing that from their editorials.
The Times has become more sensationalist in the last decade and I feel like it's time to stop treating it as a real news source. I really wish I could label posts as spam/malice.
The Times has become more sensationalist in the last decade and I feel like it's time to stop treating it as a real news source.
Please post non-significant articles like this in the weekly megathread.
How on earth is this nonsense being platformed by the Times?
Sure, some Israelis want that. Israel has a big problem with their far right wanting to expand settlements into Palestinian land.
But THE Israelis want it? This douchebag's video on social media speaks on behalf of the whole nation wanting to kick all the Gazans out of Gaza? That's hyperbolic nonsense.
If we ban all articles that have a quote from a person saying something that someone could take issue with, we wouldn't have any articles posted. Just press releases.
Where did I say we should ban anything?
I'm criticizing The Times for printing the quote and giving a platform to the person and organization who said it.
Sorry, I misread "Times" as "Tildes", my mistake.
Indeed, the NYT does have a history of platforming some highly questionable people, but I'm used to seeing that from their editorials.
Ah, no worries. Cheers!
The Times has become more sensationalist in the last decade and I feel like it's time to stop treating it as a real news source.
I really wish I could label posts as spam/malice.