Perhaps you don’t consider dishonesty in the media important. I hope that’s not an opinion that is widely shared.
I’m seeing some misinformation( IMHO )or at least questionable notions in this thread generally and mostly I have been manfully resisting my natural tendency to be a pedantic schoolmarm. But where exactly does this stem from? The Kurds are overwhelmingly not Christian.
Maybe it’s a reference to Syrian Christians who are under attack from Turkey, now.
Not Kurds, but still affected by Trump’s decision.
Exactly! It’s like those concentration camp reels that migrated from TV’s History Channel to YouTube. You know, the ones where the narrator’s talking about Auschwitz while they show stock footage of Bergen-Belsen on the screen. Dishonesty in the media!
:rolleyes:
I trust ABC more than I trust PolishPatriotTM’s Twitter feed.
Ah, okay. They aren’t the targets of Turkey and aren’t really allies of the local Kurdish authority, but they certainly can feel threatened as bystanders caught in the middle. And I’d definitely be worried about some elements of the FSA if I were them.
But Turkey is going to be under some political pressure to prevent any genocide of local Christians. Not to say it can’t or won’t happen - stuff like Sabra and Shatila happen when you make the mistake of getting ideological militias involved in wars. But I wouldn’t assume it is a foregone conclusion.
You don’t trust a source that features MAGA wings?
It’s not. But the implication, in the context of this thread, is “see, the media’s making it all up, nothing to see here.”
I hope that’s not what you mean. But this thread is about the tragedy in Kurdistan and our role in it, and your post doesn’t say jack shit about that.
I don’t think the media is making “it all” up, but it’s very obvious ABC News made up this particular attack.
Maybe ABC just got confused and showed footage from the Bowling Green Massacre.
It’s neither funny sounding nor foreign…I guess monolingual minds are not really going to get it.
You still have no clue, I assure you.
[maẓlūm] apparently means:
oppressed
tyrannized
wronged
treated unfairly
treated unjustly
It’s hilarious once you get it. :rolleyes:
I guess he may have acquired the nickname because he was oppressed, tyrannized, wronged, treated unfairly or treated unjustly.
“I once met a guy who everyone called Fatty. The funny thing was, though, he was really fat! I couldn’t stop laughing!”
A General is oppressed?
From his Wikipedia page:
Sounds like he was oppressed before becoming a military general.
How so? Are you saying that this video is their only evidence of the attack? And if so, how do you know that?
The attack may have been real, but the footage may have been completely unrelated. You can’t show a news segment saying, “Fire blazes in Chicago downtown district” and then cut to a TV clip of a fire in a warehouse in Kansas.
I’m saying the video doesn’t show the attack like they claim it does. In a word, they’re misrepresenting events. It’s certainly possible that the Syrian border town (I don’t even want to begin to guess at how it’s supposed to be spelled) actually was attacked (I don’t know, I wasn’t there, and I certainly wouldn’t take ABC News’ word for it now), but they don’t present any evidence to support that assertion other than this video, which they say they “obtained”. I’m purposely trying to avoid accusing them of “lying” because I’m not sure if they did it deliberately or if they were duped and have insufficient processes in place to verify footage they’re provided. Either way though, they can’t be trusted.
Everyone else is named Mazlumer.
You can’t blame ABC when it reports lies.
He’s the President. You have to cover his speeches.