#selective outrage

[odinsblog]

This is what misinformation + selective outrage + indifference looks like

Me: Gotdammit

[chaiaurchaandni]

[disneycritical]

be for real, this is not about snow white| Yhara zayd

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This is a message for those who claim to care about protecting innocent Palestinian lives.

Yes, I'm speaking to you, Angelina Jolie, Rashida Talib, Cori Bush and of course Bella and Gigi Hadid.

Where were you when more than 4,000 Palestinians in refugee camps were slaughtered in the Syrian Civil War?

Where was your outrage when Lebanon banned Palestinians from working as doctors, lawyers or from owning land?

Where were you when it was exposed that the Palestinian Authority tortures Palestinian prisoners?

When Palestinian Police murdered journalist Nizar Banat for opposing the government?

Where were you when 850,000 Palestinians were displaced by the Syrian Civil War?

When Lebanese militias killed 2,500 Palestinians in refugee camps and displaced another 30,000 Palestinians from 1985 to 1987?

Where is your outrage over Hamas dragging the bodies of innocent Palestinians through the streets of Gaza for collaborating with Israel?

Where were you when Hamas stored rockets in Palestinian schools?

When they recruited children to join the Jihad?

When they murdered one of the last Christian Pastors in Gaza?

When they stole electricity, water, fuel and humanitarian aid for their own terror activities instead of supporting their people?

Where is your protest against Arab states for refusing to accept a single Palestinian refugee, even temporarily?

If you're only outraged by Israel's actions, you aren't pro-Palestinian and you don't care about Palestinian lives, you're blinded by your own hatred of Israel.

The best way to protect Palestinian lives is the destruction of Hamas.

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They don't care. They neither know nor care anything about the region. They're looking to be fashionably virtuous, and if that means revealing their latent antisemitism, well, then the mask comes off. They care about joining in the trends and using all the "correct" hashtags.

Reminder: There is a border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Egypt has done nothing to facilitate citizens evacuating through that border. Because it doesn't want them. So, Hamas doesn't want them to leave because they'll lose their human shield, Egypt doesn't want them at all, Israel has tried to get them to leave and has sent in Arabic-speaking medical teams to help minimize harm to civilian because they only want to destroy Hamas... and Israel is the bad guy?

Exterminate Hamas.

[the-empress-7]

Btw, I saw that some colonizing Royals are currently visiting the Caribbean right now. Where are Nadine, Shola and Omid? Don't they have op-eds to write about how Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire deserve to be Republics?

[occvltswim]

Funny how they keep saying that Cleopatra wasn’t “black” or swarthy, yet I keep finding depictions of her from the 1300’s in illuminated manuscripts, as well as in 1800’s 🎨 from France and Italy (done by Europeans!) as exactly that.

This stuff only became a debate after the invention of things like Social Darwinism, i.e. Scientific Racism, which perpetuated the pseudo-scientific idea that all darker-skinned people are a lesser species that evolved from the Troglodyte niger (Chimpanzees).

They don't teach us that a majority of European countries underwent "ethnic cleansing" leading up to WWII, hence the reason why these places look the way that they look today. Back then the Mediterranean, while under Islamic rule for roughly 900 years, was known as the Orient or Western Asia. So-called Greeks and Italians weren’t even considered “white” (at least by American standards) until the 1950’s.

Also, some of these so-called “Egyptians” think we’re all just stupid. They think that we’re not aware that the Egyptian Media has been a catalyst for the ongoing racism against the indigenous Nubians who were living in the country before the Arab invasion. They're totally fine when you're being portrayed in any type of slave role, but god forbid you be put in a sovereign position of authority...

We don’t need Hollywood to “represent or include us”, nor tell us our history. Let these delusional, indoctrinated goofballs be mad 🤣🤷🏾‍♂️ Oderint, dum metuant!

[daughterofdessalines]

CHRIS ROCK THINKS HE’S GONNA MAKE A 2ND CAREER JUST THROWING THE SMITH’S UNDER THE BUS. IT DIDNT WORK FOR AUGUST ALSINA … Chris 🤡

[mogwai-movie-house]

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage (Stand-Up Special, 2023)

The last Chris Rock special, Tamborine, from 5 years back, was a very mediocre and forgettable outing: all I can really remember is that there were a lot of references to him trying to date after having his life destroyed by divorce, but I can't remember a single joke.

Then The Slap happened, and he was back in the public eye again in a big way, but instead of going on The View and crying about it, or going to court and suing Will Smith's sorry ass, he went back into his comedy, took his time, honed his act and came back with fire in his belly and his best stand-up special in 20 years.

"Selective Outrage" out-Chappelles an awful lot of Dave Chappelle's recent work: it addresses all the woke PC insanity of our time that is tearing the western world apart - race, gender, transgenderism, language-policing, performative outrage, victim culture, etc. - but where Chappelle is content these days to ramble on at length about these topics, Rock has crafted them all into tightly-constructed skits, with solid punchlines. It's very funny.

The one solitary time that the comedy fell flat for me was the bit about the January 6th protest, which he rather lazily characterized as white men who have all the power protesting other white men who have all the power: to classify millions of wildly different people, rich and poor, sick and healthy, working class laborer and country club idler, into a single generic 'oppressor' category seemed very out of step with everything else he was saying, and like he was just saying something at that point in the show that he knew would be guaranteed to get a kneejerk positive response from his core audience.

So I was a little disappointed in that, but the rest of the show was very nearly flawless, and an amazing return to form.

★★★★★★★★½☆

[eaglesnick]

“One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the abnormality of the Jew.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Day after day, week after week, the dreadful plight of the Palestinians in Gaza has filled the airwaves. Almost every hour our main media outlets send us pictures and give commentary concerning the death of civilians -  particularly children - within Gaza. As I write this Hamas claim over 10,000 Gazan citizens have been killed by Israeli bombings.

The condemnation of the Hamas massacre of innocent Israeli families, and the kidnapping of men, women and children to be held hostage and used as pawns in the Hamas war against Israel, has now been drowned out by the condemnation of the Israeli response to this deliberate, face-to-face terrorist massacre of its civilian citizens.

 The question I am asking is why are people so exercised by this particular war? Why are thousands of people on the streets demonstrating against this particular conflict in the Middle East when other conflicts have exacted an equally, and in many cases more horrific death toll of children and civilians?

The civil war in Yemen was between the Houthi Shia Muslims and the Shiite Muslim led government. The Saudi’s, backed by Britain, the US and France, began air strikes against the Houthis in 2015 fearing the Houthis would give Iran, a Shia Muslim State and a political rival, a foothold in the region.

What resulted was a major escalation in hostilities leading to:

“8.4 million people at risk of starvation and 22.2 million people - 75% of the population - in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN. Severe acute malnutrition is threatening the lives of almost 400,000 children under the age of five.”  (BBC NEWS: 13/06/18)

Where were the mass protests and daily news coverage of this humanitarian crisis? There were protests, but nowhere on the scale of the pro-Palestinian marches we are witnessing today, despite the vastly greater number of casualties:

“Yemen war deaths will reach 377,000 by end of the year: UN.”  (Aljazeera: 23/11/21)

The civil war in Syria has been raging for the last 12 years. Although there were demonstrations against the war initially these slowly petered out, and over recent years the continuing conflict in Syria hardly gets a mention. Yet, the UN calculates that 306,887 civilians were killed between 2011 and 2021, and by March 2023 this figure had risen to over half a million dead civilians.

Where are the protestors concerning these deaths? Nowhere to be seen! There have been more deaths in this conflict than in Gaza, yet “righteous indignation” seems to have dried up for the victims of President Assad’s genocide of his own people

The point I am making is that our media and the protesters are being very selective when it comes to  deaths of innocent civilians killed in conflict areas. What is it that makes one conflict more “news worthy” than another? What is it about the Hamas - Israeli conflict that grabs the attention of the protesters more than Middle-eastern  conflicts with far greater civilian death tolls?

 Accompanying the intensive media coverage and protests concerning Hamas and Israel has    been a massive increase in anti-Semitism  in the UK:

“Anti-Semitic hate crimes in London up 1,350%, Met police say.”  (Guardian: 20/10/23)

Such a massive rise in hate crimes against our Jewish population raises the question of a GENERAL anti-Semitic culture within sections of our society. (Anti-Islamic incidents have also increased but to a lesser extent) How many in the media and how many on the pro-Palestinian marches are giving vent to conscious or unconscious anti-Semitic feelings rather than having genuine humanitarian concerns for the people of Gaza? I would like to think none of them but  I fear I would be wrong.

[arthropooda]

[odinsblog]

Yeah, so I got to thinking about the fuckery in Arizona. They just passed an anti-abortion law from 1864, right? At that point in time, Arizona wasn’t even a state, however they did provide troops to fight in the Confederacy. It’s like they really want to “take America back(wards)” to the good old days of patriarchy on steroids + white supremacy

Anyway, it got me to thinking about what other archaic laws are on the books that Arizona might want to selectively enforce? Being Black, my first thought was, is slavery off the table or nah? What about laws against interracial marriage? Same sex marriage? What about laws restricting who could and could not vote??

There are a lot of outdated laws that are still on the books in Arizona (and other states too), but nobody on the Arizona Supreme Court is really tryna make things like adultery illegal, right? Why pick and choose or be selectively outraged about one and not the other? (answ: hypocrisy. misogyny. racism.)

Any law that was on the books before a territory became a state should be repealed, or at the very least, they should have to be reconsidered or voted on again

[wondernwriter]

I’ve loved every single Chris Rock special so I was excited! Maybe I was too excited because it wasn’t anywhere near as funny as I’d hoped. And all the Will Smith references were spoiled by clips in the news. Ugh… boring & i know he could have killed it. Same old…”wokeness” complaints, “p****” jokes…then FINALLY the $40 million bit & it was at the end & super short & already shown on news outlets.

[cttm001]

Whatevs! OutStanding Chris Rock’s (2023) newly Live Streamed Comedy Special deserves to be the first of its kind on Netflix…

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[trendseng]

Chris Rock's Provocative New Special "Selective Outrage" Takes on Cancel Culture, Race, and Politics

Prior to the 2022 Oscars, comedian Chris Rock will release a new stand-up comedy special titled “Selective Outrage.” The programme is anticipated to address divisive issues like politics, race, and pop culture. Chris Rock has established a reputation as a controversial and irreverent comic, and his most recent special is probably going to push the envelope and challenge his audience’s…

[bfhaver]

Y’all in 2020: “insulting a racist woman’s appearance is still misogyny and unacceptable, even if she is a bigot and a horrible person”

Y’all in 2022: “well it’s okay for me to call gay men faggots if they’re misogynists bc misogyny is bad”