The White House on Tuesday condemned ādeath to Americaā chants that surfaced online from a recent rally in Dearborn, Mich., protesting Israelās war in Gaza.
Press secretaryĀ Karine Jean-PierreĀ replied, āyesā when asked ifĀ President BidenĀ condemns the comments in the chants, which were captured on video by some attendees.
āPeaceful protests are something that the president has also been very clear that, its important to give folks space to peacefully protest. But any type of violent rhetoric, we are going to denounce,ā she said.
Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D) has also denounced the chants, sharing inĀ a statement on XĀ that āDearborn is a city of proud Americans.ā
Because chants of death to America isnāt about destroying the system. Itās about killing the people. How you donāt get the difference is odd.
Not this again. This is based on the original Persian, which is a mistranslated figure of speech. In Persian language it means down with America, itās not talking about actual deaths. In Persian, they even say death to potatoes.
One constructs a message for the recipient.
If you say ādeath to Americaā, to Americans, in America, knowing full fucking well that it will be interpreted as ādeath to Americaā, then I hate to break it to you, you ARE saying ādeath to Americaā.
Only if done in the recipientās language.
When Bush said there should be a crusade against terrorism, itās not his fault if the Arabic speaking media used the word for the historic Crusades.
And as for the chanting in Dearborn, it was one nut job chanting and everyone from the mayor to president Biden condemned it.
No. If I know full well how my message will be received, itās irrelevant. Language is a construct for communication, it isnāt intrinsically the transference of ideas. If I blabber or gesticulate anything knowing that it will be received to mean X, then I have knowingly and intentionally communicated X.
It ABSOLUTELY was the fault of his administration: when youāre communicating to a global audience, which he was doing, you pay a TON of people to avoid making exactly this kind of error.
And while I agree that ignorance when individuals make this mistake is understandable, as soon as itās been pointed outā¦ If you keep doing it, itās no longer a mistake, itās intentional.
Thatās fair. Iām not implying it isnāt.
All Iām saying itās childish to say something that you know will be interpreted. Itād be like me saying the argument was āretardedā, and then if saying āAs someone who is bilingual, I was using the french wordā.
If you think theyāre literally calling to kill over 300 million people, I have great news about potential crypto and NFT investments for you.
Itās almost like the mainstream media deliberately doesnāt give a voice to people outside of a very narrow (and shrinking) Overton window.
Edit: honestly having trouble imagining how absolutely stupid someone has to be to downvote this lol. Guess I need to make a cryptocurrency lol.
This is the same thinking that people saying that if the roles were reversed between Palestinians and Israel, that Palestine wouldnāt wipe out Israelā¦ religious hate, especially Islam, knows no peace.
Especially? Come on. Thereās 2 billion Muslims out there and Muslim majority countries have a lower murder rate than non-Muslim majority countries. Get out of here with your bigoted stereotypes.
Yes, I forgot how the majority Muslim nations, donāt rape their women, have honor killings for their women, murder anyone who is LGBTQ+ and enjoy stoning people still.
I mean hell I remember when I was in the EU the last time and they had a stoningā¦o waitā¦
Christian-majority countries donāt rape? Oh honey, you have a lot to learn about the world.
Jamaica and Uganda have the worst murder rates of LGBT in the world, what religion are most Jamaicans?
Youāre overgeneralizing billions of people with false stereotypes. Majority of the worldās 2 BIllion Muslims live in democracies. Most of those democracies have elected women as presidents and prime ministers, has America yet? Stop insisting your stereotypes are real and actually go and see the world and check. Youāll find out youāre wrong.
Theyāre not raping people for a religious reason. I donāt know how youāre not getting that.
Iāve been to most of the world, Islam is the most violent religion in the modern world. Stop acting like itās not.
NOBODY is raping people for a religious reason. No country legalizes that, not even the Taliban. Is that what you think is happening? No wonder youāre insisting on such blind hate. Please educate yourself. Peace.
Lol who said theyāre doing it legallyā¦holy crap youāre reading into your own bias. Stop acting like Islam is somehow not a religion with a ton of violence thatās done with its name.