• brezel@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    not sure why you get downvoted. that behavour is obviously bad and wrong but that choice of words is objectively an exaggeration.

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      3 hours ago

      Oh definitely, but “questionable treatment” goes too far in the other direction. She suffered physical and mental abuse and humiliation, not “some questionable treatment.” If she was a POW this would’ve been a war crime. Hence the downvotes.

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      9 hours ago

      Oh definitely, but “questionable treatment” goes too far in the other direction. She suffered physical and mental abuse and humiliation, not “some questionable treatment.” If she was a POW this would’ve been a war crime.

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        5 hours ago

        I think we all agree on that. It’s just nice to make sure the truth is conveyed. I read that line in particular, and given Israel’s deeply troubling history, instantly worried about sexual assault.

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          3 hours ago

          I agree with you, but responding to someone overplaying Zionist crimes by blatantly downplaying Zionist crimes will usually (and rightly so) be taken as Zionist apologia, in the same way responding to “like a hundred million people died in the Holocaust” with “nah it was just a hundred thousand and it was a war bro no big deal” would be taken as Nazi apologia. This is the cause of the downvotes.

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            53 minutes ago

            Except in that example the nazi apologist was lying, and in this one it’s a recent event we’re actively writing the history of.