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David Atkinson's avatar

Suppress the true, suggest the false. The spread of this disinformation depends upon suppression of the truth of the horrors. The Italian newspapers on center right and center-left have not been shy about details, and have had coverage of 10-7 that is indistinguishable from each other. The center-left MSM in America became very cautious about reporting 10-7 details within a couple of days of the event, and massive skepticism has been poured into the most pedantic differences: was the baby cooked in the over or burned outside of it? Was the "head separated from the body" of the teen girl before death or after she was burned? The more critical question of whether she was alive when burned hasn't been touched. And rape? Rape has been largely ignored by MSM accounts. Jake Tapper is an exception, and the denial of atrocity has not been uniform. It's as if the media has been so afraid of anti-Muslim backlash that they have not allowed the public to have information that 1-5 wackos among us might misuse against Muslims, like the landlord who killed the little kid. The suppression of truth is a violence to the victims, every bit as dehumanizing as the abuse itself--even if it doesn't require as much psychopathy to pull it off. if they wanted to reduce backlash against Muslims, why not put one of the many, many, many Muslims who would unequivocally condemn the use of torture, rape, kidnapping and indiscriminate homicide on the media? These Muslims are not hard to find, I know several, but the media insists on putting-forth mealy-mouthed equivocators rather than those who fully and categorically condemn the attacks. Here, only the Canadian right publishes a story on this: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-headed-muslim-group-condemns-oct-7-attacks-bans-members-from-rallies Silencing this large group of Muslims puts Muslims at risk--both in terms of allowing the public to generalize against them.

I have also noted that the completely indefensible denial of October 7 started and grew with intellectually justifiable equivocations about the attacks, then came intellectual plausible claims of Israeli maltreatment of Gazans, and then spread to arguable accusations of dishonesty against the Israelis... all of this set-up a claim for Hamas being on-balance, more oppressed, and intellectually lazy westerners like cognitive neatness: they are predisposed to reject any details that do not fit into the binary judgment of "Hamas better than Israel", and they don't look at the specific details when the media fails to confront them with these damning details.

This is a growing disaster, and the media is never going to correct the errors it fuels even when it comes to violence against Jews, which it has worked very hard to downplay and muddle (Detroit rabbi, California protestor). The media is responsible for any pogrom that occurs from here on out.

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Jeff Keener's avatar

The 10/7 deniers also attempt to couch the raid as a military operation, as thoroughly ludicrous as the proposition that Hamas does not use human shields and does not use hospitals and schools as military bases and armories.

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