Of the articles surveyed on Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, 87% chose not to call it ethnic cleansing.

Recent coverage of Gaza and the West Bank illustrates that, while corporate media occasionally outright call for expelling Palestinians from their land, more often the way these outlets support ethnic cleansing is by declining to call it ethnic cleansing.

  • @yesmanEnglish
    7•9 hours ago

    Y’all ever notice that arguments about how to call something steal oxygen away from what to do about it?

    Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass-murder are just words. Calling it a pumpkin pie won’t bring back one dead child.

    Reality is independent from language. Words borrow meaning, they’re not the source of it.

    • @finitebanjoEnglish
      0•4 hours ago

      Yeah but by turning people away from the media we also isolate them from groups with similar ideals, forcing them into bubbles/echo-chambers which are easily radicalized to promote violence and insurgency.