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[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 38 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 1 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 27 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.

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