Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 20 hours agoThat’s your takeaway from this article?
You’re not incorrect, but I don’t feel like this is an appropriate place to be criticizing someone’s statements about brutality.
Hubi@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Criticizing the source is justified IMO. If they frame something easily verifieable like Thunberg’s age like this, it severely limits their credibility right out of the gate. I don’t doubt the actual contents of the statement, but empellishing the story like this hurts only their own cause and freely hands an angle of attack to their enemies.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
That statement was made by Ersin Celik Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant, not The Canary. All they did was quote the source in full.
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Ersin Celik was born in 1982 making him about 43 (depending on month born).
I can fully understand why he would view a small 22 year old as a little kid. She’s half his age.
You can be fully aware someone is a grown adult and at the same time pity them as just a kid, especially one being tortured by a genocidal state.
Butler@lemmynsfw.com 16 hours ago
It’s a quote. It’s what someone said to reporters. It’s not framing