Yet again, note the ambiguous euphemistic headline: "Afghan civilians killed as US troops open fire"—how'd they die? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-civilians-idUSKBN1930SZ …pic.twitter.com/Y1gtTTohkL
These are the ridiculous euphemistic headlines Western news outlets write when a US airstrike kills more than 200 Iraqi civilianspic.twitter.com/XdMrjT1sSh
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This misleading euphemistic language abounds in media. Also see 2015 US bombing of hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistanhttp://fair.org/home/media-are-blamed-as-us-bombing-of-afghan-hospital-is-covered-up/ …
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@oceanclub if my family was wiped out by an American bombing, I know what I'd want to be when I grow up. -
Why do they hate us? Because our military kills their families..
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by anyone else, this would be called genocide.
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"American exceptionalism"
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"selective sympathy" as well
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200 Iraqi civilians "allegedly died", but last week 4 people were "slaughtered" in London. Propaganda - not even subtle.
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@KiranOpal@BenjaminNorton look, they happened tobe I the same place as the bombs, no correlation -
yet literally every Muslim or Arab or brown person is somehow part of an international
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terrorist conspiracy
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@adamjohnsonNYC "country w/same name as U.S. drops bomb-like objects in exact location as location of murderous and negligenThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo -
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yep media cares about white westerners most & non western poc leasthttps://twitter.com/KiranOpal/status/844610065898389509 …
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sadly, in one US air strike death toll is far > than a dozen suicide bombers achieve in a year. Fighting terror with terror?
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- if 200 Americans were killed, we'd never hear the end of it for years and years.
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@media_bite msm frequently uses 'died' as opposed to 'killed'.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Undo
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