Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s old enough to be her dad. Of course she seems like a child from his perspective, if he has a child they’re likely about her age.
Butler@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a quote. It’s what someone said to reporters. It’s not framing