I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely.

    It’s also a testament to the terrifying numbing that the passage of time has on events.

    They describe WW2 where they called the Nazis, “the enemy”, then in the next sentence compare The IRA to the fucking Nazis.

    Not even remotely close.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      then in the next sentence compare The IRA to the fucking Nazis.

      What? Did we read the same article? Maybe I’m suffering from a reading comprehension deficit, here, but that wasn’t my interpretation at all. Could you quote where you think they draw that comparison?