That’s something I noticed as well. Best example of this is literally any Joe Biden Twitter post on the matter: Brandon claiming he is Israel’s number one fan, Chuds in the comments section pissing themselves over him unfreezing Iranian assets (as if a military operation like this could take only one month to prepare, with a fucking blockade and all) and how their Big Wet Boy would wave a magic wand and never allow this to happen (plus the Indian RSS detachment backing them up), and then a smaller segment of people posting lukewarm centrist takes that don’t even mention the other party and are so vague it may as well not been there. It looks really weird since this dynamic actually doesn’t block out entirely the upvoted comments mentioning Palestinian statistics or even outright unrestrained pro-Palestine sentiment. But the former three nonetheless have managed to wrangle the narrative because there’s just enough friction and energy to make it look like it’s the entire breadth of the discourse. And thus, Israel’s righteousness is presumed when the uninitiated gets curious and scrolls down.
People like to post a lot that joke about the Soviet ambassador looking at all the major news stations on TV and then turning to the Americans, who assume he’s going to be awed by the competing perspectives, and asking “why do they essentially all say the same thing?” but there’s something more insidiously effective underneath the surface about the way Western media works that that joke touches the tip of the iceberg.
That’s something I noticed as well. Best example of this is literally any Joe Biden Twitter post on the matter: Brandon claiming he is Israel’s number one fan, Chuds in the comments section pissing themselves over him unfreezing Iranian assets (as if a military operation like this could take only one month to prepare, with a fucking blockade and all) and how their Big Wet Boy would wave a magic wand and never allow this to happen (plus the Indian RSS detachment backing them up), and then a smaller segment of people posting lukewarm centrist takes that don’t even mention the other party and are so vague it may as well not been there. It looks really weird since this dynamic actually doesn’t block out entirely the upvoted comments mentioning Palestinian statistics or even outright unrestrained pro-Palestine sentiment. But the former three nonetheless have managed to wrangle the narrative because there’s just enough friction and energy to make it look like it’s the entire breadth of the discourse. And thus, Israel’s righteousness is presumed when the uninitiated gets curious and scrolls down.
People like to post a lot that joke about the Soviet ambassador looking at all the major news stations on TV and then turning to the Americans, who assume he’s going to be awed by the competing perspectives, and asking “why do they essentially all say the same thing?” but there’s something more insidiously effective underneath the surface about the way Western media works that that joke touches the tip of the iceberg.