Rights advocates call on the Trump administration to ensure accountability for the killing of Sayfollah Musallet.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.

“We are aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank,” Reuters reported a State Department spokesperson as saying. The official declined to comment further “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones” of the reported victim.

  • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    13 小时前

    For once I believe on that “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones”, because the BS the State Department spokesperson would have said instead would have been extremely infuriating for the mourning family.

  • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    1 天前

    It is a trend started that started a decade ago (ironically with Obama!) but the transition is now complete; Americans with a skin color, let alone if naturalized, are not considered “actual American” therefore no longer news worthy. At least, they still give a conditional pass to those darker skins conforming with the ideology of the presidency that happens to be ruling at the time.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      103·
      18 小时前

      You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don’t care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          24·
          14 小时前

          Don’t be deliberately disingenuous. And if you’re insist on it, then I’ll match you: point to where I said you used the word ‘only’ in your comment, in my comment.

          • communism@lemmy.ml
            31·
            14 小时前

            You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon. There isn’t the same strong implication in Maple Engineer’s comment.

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
              13·
              13 小时前

              Can you point to where I said he thought it was a maga specific phenomenon?

              • communism@lemmy.ml
                11·
                11 小时前

                Can I point to where I said you said that explicitly? I can point to where I said you said it implicitly though. (emphasis mine)

                You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon.

                You also more or less said it explicitly though, if you want to go down that route. I can’t quote a specific part of your comment because your entire comment is based on this suggestion. (emphasis mine again)

                You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don’t care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
              23·
              13 小时前

              I am begging reddit debate lords to actually learn what ‘strawman’ means, rather than treating the wikipedia page on logical fallacies like a list of magic incantations.

              I am also begging them to just talk plainly: “You strawmanned me”, rather than this insufferable nerd sarcasm bullshit of “sorry you strawman didn’t work.”

              • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
                13·
                13 小时前

                I mean if, we’re being real, it was also a whataboutism. “What about what the democrats did?”

                Get better.

                • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  1·
                  12 分钟前

                  Whataboutism is itself a thought-terminating cliché.

                  From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin ‘you too’, term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.

                  Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

                  Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

                  But what if “whataboutism” isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term “whataboutism” has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

                • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  11·
                  42 分钟前

                  Get better.

                  Do you lot insist on writing like the most annoying losers on earth deliberately?

    • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      1 天前

      Don’t worry. Rachel Corrie was white and they killed her with the US’ knowledge too. US conservatives don’t even know she existed, liberals barely either.