“The US government will evacuate US citizens who have been unable to book commercial transit…”
And “The US embassy is not evacuating US citizens at this time. There is a commercially available flight available…”
There’s a word we Americans like to use for liars who stretch the truth to fit their narrative: Republicans. Be a shame if we had to change it.
Does it not say “those unable to book flights”?
My thoughts exactly. The right side says commercial flights are available and they will have to book those commercial flights. The left side says commercial flights are not available to all, and they will help those who can’t book one.
It certainly does. They could have added it where it is missing maybe, but potentially there are multiple flights available with maybe more capacity than needed?
I think this is probably a dumb question, but I’ve never thought about it before and sure-as-shootin’ don’t know. The screenshot indicated one group of Americans is considered white and one is not. Is that a known perception? It’s a total first-heard for me and I just… shit, it’s never even crossed my mind to think about that.
TIA
Jews go into the “white” bucket for ethnicity while Muslims go into the “brown” bucket. Anecdotally in America at least this seems true of their general skin color. I’d say a large part is also that America hasn’t really valued any middleast Muslim lives since 9/11 (perhaps earlier but I’m not that old).
Race in general is a social construct that changes to suite racists, like when Italians weren’t considered white but now are. But, racists of today consider Israeli/Jewish people with white while Lebanese/Muslim people are non-white/brown.
I don’t think I know anyone who would consider an “Israeli-American” to be white, or even any whiter than “Lebanese-American”, and I’m solidly Midwestern.
I kind of want to send out a bunch of messages to people asking if they consider one “white” or “whiter” than the other…
I know plenty of people who will give Israel carte Blanche simply because it “needs to exist for Jesus to come back” though, so answers wouod be skewed I imagine.
Sorry I didn’t really answer your question, I’m interested to hear other people’s takes as well.
I think if you don’t know anyone that thinks Israelis are predominantly white that’s more on you than anything else.
Biden: Pro human rights when it’s politically convenient.
Unfortunately even that’s a high bar for most US politicians. There’s plenty worse, but vanishingly few that go beyond it.
