• Lojcs@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Couldn’t they frame this without the angry bearded Arab vs smiling white woman?

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        31 minutes ago

        The other person also said they didn’t look angry to them so that could be just me. His eyebrows are angled downward and I think that’s what makes him look upset to me.

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      10 hours ago

      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.

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        9 hours ago

        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’

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          2 hours ago

          I think they were attempting to imply he was more dangerous than her and more deserving of being on the list. Its probably true, but tactically chosen pictures make the differences between them more extreme, less than a mug shot of her and a wedding photo of him would, as an example.

          I am surprised they didn’t find the classic terrorist photo (holding a weapon) they usually seek out for these headlines.

          Compared to what I usually see, this is pretty mild.

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        4 hours ago

        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.

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        9 hours ago

        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.

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          4 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.

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            8 hours ago

            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.

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                  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.

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                    5 hours ago

                    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