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The subtle manipulation of language.
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I take it as the families of Israelis affected by the events of 7 October, and the entirety of the ~~Palestinian~~ Gazan people. How this is dehumanizing language is beyond me tbh.
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If you want more on Bias. Also, let's make one thing clear: This isn't a genocide against the Gazan people, it's a genocide against the Palestinian people. Gazans are Palestinians in diaspora. Israel has been working nonstop to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians in Palestine whether that's in Gaza, West Bank, or the rest of the occupied territories. Anyone acting like it's just Gaza or the "Gazans" is part of the problem. It might seem pendantic, but it's too late for some half-assed lip service bullshit, especially from those that have been complicit, enablers, and the primary drivers of this genocide and oppression 100 years in the making.
Palestinians have families, and not only Palestinians in Gaza were harmed by the genocide and ethnic cleansing. There were also pogroms in the West Bank. Obama is bothsiding a genocide as if there is any equivalency between the victim and the aggressor.
This tweet is best understood in the context of the consistently biased media coverage that we've seen over the last few years, in which Israeli deaths and injuries are covered far more frequently and with more emotive language than those of Palestinians. This is despite the fact that the harm to Palestinians is far larger, both in terms of the brutality inflicted upon civilians, and the scale of deaths. This is a genocide.
And yes, I'm using the word "Palestinian", because besides the fact that Palestinians in the West Bank have also been severely affected by this conflict (as well as being systematically oppressed by the apartheid regime even before October 7th), Israeli politicians have made it abundantly clear that complete genocide of Palestinians in their goal.