• @i_ben_fine
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    438 months ago

    So… she didn’t say that. Those words are very different.

    • @CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      158 months ago

      Well, that’s your choice to side with her on that. A lot of people are interpreting it as 1) a terrible time to try to be funny and 2) can easily be interpreted as support for Hamas, until she got a ton of backlash and it started to cost her money and then she ‘totes didn’t mean it that way, just a prank, for realz!’

      • @xad@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        It really is a choice to claim someone said something which they did not actually say at all.

        Saying “they said x and I think they meant y” is entirely different from claiming “they said y” while knowing they in fact said x.

        This is not controversial. Interpretations are fine, actively crafting disinformation is not.

        • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          That was her mistake - the comment was too vague, so the media jumped on it, skewed the narrative, took that skewed narrative and grossly exaggerated it further, and denounced her as pro-Hamas. It’s obvious to see with even a little bit of reading and it’s both frightening and disgusting.

          • @atetulo@lemm.ee
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            138 months ago

            Uhh, no. It was not her mistake that biased media outlets with an agenda say she said something while not actually reporting the exact thing she said.

            It’s bad journalism, but I don’t think anyone expects reputable journalists to take this matter seriously.

          • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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            48 months ago

            No, that one comment was not vague, the only active “fighters” to be called “freedom fighters” were Hamas.

            There is no ambiguity, no vagueness.

            • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
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              38 months ago

              There is absolutely ambiguity, it just doesn’t suit your worldview (or similar) so you lie. It’s your right to lie, but just know that anyone who isn’t dogmatic knows you’re lying.