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[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 37 points 11 months ago (31 children)

Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she wrote on the platform on Saturday.

That's all. If you're very inattentive or deliberately misinterpreting her words, you'd think that she was endorsing Hamas as "freedom fighters".

But if you DO pay attention and know anything, you'll notice that she never mentions Hamas and know that Hamas aren't usually the ones filming any of their atrocities. Add her clarification from a few days later and it's clear that she did NOT endorse Hamas and is the victim of character assassination because she had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime:

I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that's what the Palestinian citizens are... fighting for freedom every day.

[–] z500@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I'm confused. Who else is fighting besides Hamas and the IDF?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

There are other kinds of fighting than violence on a grand scale. Regular Palestinians are fighting the apartheid regime in ways big and small every day.

[–] z500@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, that's pretty much what I figured you'd say. The down vote was a nice touch.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have this odd quirk of downvoting sealions when they ask bad faith questions with obvious answers that they refuse to accept. I'm kooky like that!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you distinguish between a good faith question and “sealioning”?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A good faith question is when you're honestly seeking clarification either because you don't know something or don't know what the other person means.

Sealioning is when you're "just asking questions" in a manipulative manner with no intention of taking the answers seriously under consideration or making a valid point of your own.

It's often used in place of an actual argument when the sea lion knows that their point isn't strong enough to withstand scrutiny.

Here's the origin of the term afaik:

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

defining is when you decide or declare that a certain string of words is equivalent to a word.

distinguishing is when you decide or declare which of two categories a particular thing is in

I know the definition of these words. I’m asking you distinguish, as you read comments on the internet, which are which kind?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Subtle, I like it

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