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There isn’t enough BBC footage of a school bathroom shot with low exposure coming from Gaza, we just can’t be certain at this point
I want to scream i want to scream i want to scream i want to scream
I watched a live stream of the gaza skyline day and night from oct 7th to maybe, idk, the 20th? I saw the bombs, i saw the willy pete. I saw it.
“how many lights?”
“there are four lights!”stay strong comrade
If you look into the Wikipedia arguments about the name of the “Uyghur genocide” article, you’ll see that the argument is that “Uyghur genocide” is the common name and therefore the one that should be used. Like the same reason the “Spanish flu” article is called that despite not actually being from Spain. i.e. they know it’s not actually a genocide, but they still want to call it that and came up with some bullshit technicality.
But ultimately, like most other bullshit on Wikipedia, it’s based on a supposedly neutral restatement of “reliable” sources, which at best means it inherits the biases of those sources which surprise surprise are mostly Western. Wikipedia likes to pretend it’s unbiased, but in reality it just shifts a direct bias about the facts of any given issue to a bias about the reliability of sources, making the actual facts harder to argue. It’s basically Wikipedia policy that the articles are not based on fact but rather on what has been stated by those sources, regardless of fact.
Damn I totally would expect “Spanish flu” to redirect to the scientific name of the disease.
The article is about the pandemic rather than the disease or virus itself. The most accurate name would probably be “1918-1920 flu pandemic”. But in general using the common name is understandable.
The article itself begins:
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu
I really want there to be a mirror Wikipedia that has all the same articles but corrects the bullshit. I know ProleWiki exists but it’s not really general purpose like Wikipedia and doesn’t have many editors.
But it would be hard to implement since I would want it to keep pulling changes from Wikipedia while also keeping the bullshit corrected.
“We totally don’t think it’s a genocide, it’s just what’s in common parlance”
“So maybe don’t call it that and try to help cease perpetuating the misnomer?”
“REEEEEEE IT’S WHAT ITS CALLED”
stays undefeatedAn added benefit of South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is you can ask libs “well if we’re so serious about this, where’s the U.S. ICJ case against China?”
It’s not a perfect argument, but it does tease out stuff like the U.S. not really giving a shit about international law, the U.S. not actually believing there’s a genocide in Xinjiang, a bunch of other countries not believing it either, etc.
