• VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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    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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      1 year ago

      I think you don’t realise how little knowledge “common knowledge” actually is. Peolple on lemmee arent you’re average joe when it comes to geopolitical knowledge. I am not dismissing her knowledge eitherx but i believe you are overestimating it.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah because a Lebanese-American public figure who sympathises with the plight of Palestine has NEVER had to answer bad faith arguments equating Hamas with all Palestinians and would thus have NO need for more knowledge about the methods of them than your average inattentive and incurious casual ingester of pro-regime billionaire-owned American news! 🙄