Til;dr never trust MSM. Even when POC literally die beside them, there's always a young white woman available to be propped up to support their narrative, even against her will.

EDIT-ORIGINAL TITLE: As we all hear more stories out of the latest conflict about Shani Louk, it's a good time to remember the predominantly false narratives we received about Jessica Lynch during the Iraq war.

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  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    omg, i remember hearing about Jessica Lynch. of course i never heard her testimony of events, only the highly dramatized, media-frenzy version. what a stupid and disgusting country.

    truck goes wrong way, crashes, she's unconcious and wakes up at civilian hospital. doctors / nurses care for her and when she's stable, they try to return her to the US military, who fires on the ambulance carrying her. so instead they keep her at the hospital, where a local gremlin has ingratiated himself with the occupiers and tells them a made up story about the iraqi military beating her up. so the SPECIAL FORCES BADASS TEAM 69 raid an unresisting civilian hospital, corral all the staff, and record themselves carrying her out.

    all the media stories were about how she was sexually assaulted and tortured, and literally none of that happened. and the military was too trigger happy to accept her return via ambulance.

    and they made a movie where she was apparently doing captain america shit and resisting "capture" (never captured). when she came out against that portrayal, she started getting death threats from americans calling her a liar.

    • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Interviewed by Diane Sawyer, Lynch claimed, concerning the media and the Pentagon: "They used me to symbolize all this stuff. It's wrong. I don't know why they filmed [the rescue mission] or why they say these things." She also stated "I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees. And that's the last I remember."

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I remember when that movie came out. The advertising blitz was in full force. I used to go to the cinema with my pals about twice a month. They ran the trailer for that movie for months.

        • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          Which movie? I just read about the interview and multiple testimonies from staff at the hospital she recovered at.

            • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
              hexagon
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              11 months ago

              “Saving Jessica Lynch”

              FFS of course those ghouls named it that

              Thank you for your help comrade, and for taking that bullet for all of us

              • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                It sucked. I was just there to watch Kill Bill or Matrix Revolutions. It's been a while so I forget. But it was something like that. Thanks, regal cinemas.

    • iie [they/them, he/him]
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      11 months ago

      no matter how many times bullshit stories get uncovered, Americans never doubt the next one