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minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down4·8 hours agoCouldn’t they frame this without the angry bearded Arab vs smiling white woman?
minus-squareKomodo Rodeo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 hours agoThat’s just resting beard face.
minus-squareSp00kyB00k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoThat is a good beard though
minus-squareSarmyth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down4·8 hours agoHe doesn’t really look angry to me. And he does have a beard and is Arab so those seem like things that will be in every picture of him. I’m sure hos photo is from the wanted list and hers is from her bio somewhere, but the juxtaposition just serves to magnify the point.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down3·edit-27 hours agoThis is not an image that just comes up if you search him. Oop chose to have this image instead of him in a suit with a kept beard. Edit: also amplify which fucking point, that people with messy facial hair in headscarves are terrorists? Edit 2: look at my bias with the messy part, sub in ‘longer’
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down8·7 hours agoNo because the left image is what people have been sold as the stereotype of a terrorist.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 hours agoI mean, that guy is a real literal terrorist. Who was he doing terrorism on behalf of? Please don’t probe that too deeply. Just, you know… keep this in mind.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·7 hours agoBut the message is that we should be stereotyping the guy on the left because he’s more dangerous, and not the lady on the right. And that’s wrong.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours ago we should be stereotyping the guy on the left because he’s more dangerous He is more dangerous, if you’re a Christian, Alawite, Shia or Druze. Just not if you’re an Israeli.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·7 hours agoIf you were aware this was stereotyping why did you post it here?
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·7 hours agoBecause it shows that the stereotype were actually American plants.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-27 hours agoI feel like we are having a conversation so I won’t just ignore, but I don’t understand at all what you mean by this.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 hours agoISIS and Al Qaeda are allies of America and Israel.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours agoAnd that requires using stereotypes to communicate?
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 hours agoThis is a perfect example of how the empire disguises spies, commits terrorist acts with them, launches a racist propaganda campaign against a people using their spy as example, and then it turns out to be their own guy. This is not a stereotype. It’s literally the guy.
minus-squareLojcs@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 hours agoI see it now, although still I don’t think gachaing the US with those in on it topic is worth putting this imagery on the internet
Couldn’t they frame this without the angry bearded Arab vs smiling white woman?
That’s just resting beard face.
That is a good beard though
He doesn’t really look angry to me. And he does have a beard and is Arab so those seem like things that will be in every picture of him.
I’m sure hos photo is from the wanted list and hers is from her bio somewhere, but the juxtaposition just serves to magnify the point.
This is not an image that just comes up if you search him. Oop chose to have this image instead of him in a suit with a kept beard.
Edit: also amplify which fucking point, that people with messy facial hair in headscarves are terrorists?
Edit 2: look at my bias with the messy part, sub in ‘longer’
No because the left image is what people have been sold as the stereotype of a terrorist.
I mean, that guy is a real literal terrorist. Who was he doing terrorism on behalf of? Please don’t probe that too deeply.
Just, you know… keep this in mind.
But the message is that we should be stereotyping the guy on the left because he’s more dangerous, and not the lady on the right.
And that’s wrong.
He is more dangerous, if you’re a Christian, Alawite, Shia or Druze. Just not if you’re an Israeli.
If you were aware this was stereotyping why did you post it here?
Because it shows that the stereotype were actually American plants.
I feel like we are having a conversation so I won’t just ignore, but I don’t understand at all what you mean by this.
ISIS and Al Qaeda are allies of America and Israel.
And that requires using stereotypes to communicate?
This is a perfect example of how the empire disguises spies, commits terrorist acts with them, launches a racist propaganda campaign against a people using their spy as example, and then it turns out to be their own guy.
This is not a stereotype. It’s literally the guy.
I see it now, although still I don’t think gachaing the US with those in on it topic is worth putting this imagery on the internet