^Of course it's dehumanizing. Israelis are 'people'. Palestinians are just, well, 'Palestinians'. It's a not-so-subtle way of 'othering' the dead in Gaza, to exclude them as human beings. If you can keep them from belonging to the group 'people', it makes it easier to justify butchering them.

Boru

Smith & Wesson officially moves headquarters out of blue state to Tennessee.

(October 9, 2023 at 11:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Of course it's dehumanizing. Israelis are 'people'. Palestinians are just, well, 'Palestinians'. It's a not-so-subtle way of 'othering' the dead in Gaza, to exclude them as human beings. If you can keep them from belonging to the group 'people', it makes it easier to justify butchering them.

Boru

To your point:

Quote:The militant group Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel on Saturday, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally declare war Sunday. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant then vowed to halt the supply of food, electricity and water to Gaza, saying in a video message posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the nation is at war with “human animals.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international...aza-strip/

Humans are animals.

(October 9, 2023 at 12:37 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Humans are animals.

I think his point is clear to most of us.

Yup, the headlines have been shitting the bed all day. Meanwhile, rueters is reporting that hamas leveraged the gaza work permitting program to lull authorities into a false sense of security. Anonymous sources, ofc.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...023-10-08/

Just to be clear, I wouldn’t want anyone to mistake my ire at the dehumanization of Palestinians as support for Hamas.

Boru

(October 9, 2023 at 10:39 am)Fireball Wrote: My thought was elision for the sake of brevity-saving ink, in the newsprint past. I didn't see that as dehumanizing, probably because of this, and I recognize Palestinians as people, anyway. Except for those animals who paraded some dead gal with only her panties on around in their truck.

Yes, and those fuckers need to be removed from the planet.

(October 9, 2023 at 4:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Here's another one from CNN. Same problem:

Quote:More than 700 people have been killed in Israel, and over 400 are dead in Gaza.

I may have to remove CNN from my list of news sources. This is reprehensible.

It's a hornets nest out there.

(October 9, 2023 at 11:47 am)Foxaèr Wrote: Smith & Wesson officially moves headquarters out of blue state to Tennessee.

tl;dr: Eastern MA and the major cities are blue. Rest of state tends red. 

Massachusetts demography: The major cities - Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge, Somerville, Fall River, Holyoke, Lowell, Lawrence... are all dark blue. The suburbs around them are purple in the eastern part of the state and red west of the Route 95 belt. West of Worcester the population density thins out massively (> 65% of the 7 million MA residents live from Worcester east).  The red swath is broken up by Springfield and the college enclaves of Amherst and North Hampton before solid red takes hold in the Connecticut river valley. Extreme western MA in the Berkshires tends to be Vermont-style liberal. 

Many of the mill towns in western MA, e.g. Ware (the town that can never be found) resemble rural Appalachia - rusty downtowns with box stores and little other industry, lots of "FJB" stickers on pickup trucks. 

Class is more indicative of politics than ethnicity. A majority of white collar folks are liberal to moderate. Majority of working class are MAGA to moderate. Eastern MA's population dominates election cycles. The Boston TV stations don't cover news west of Worcester. That's the "springfield/albany" market.