“You Muslims must die!”

Wadea Al-Fayoume a 6 year old Palestinian American boy was just stabbed to death in Illinois by his landlord shouting these words. His mom Hanaan was stabbed as well and in critical condition.

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  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    I hate it.

    This is the exact same cruelty that was in the air in ‘02.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    If our batshit insane media would fairly represent the conflict, shitheads like this wouldn’t hate innocent children.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        That is deeply backwards thinking. What reason would this miserable fucker have to upend his life to murder a child if not for the decades of media justifying western imperialism by portraying Muslims as vermin?

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          You're right that everyone is a product of their environment, and there is a world where people like this aren't so heavily propagandized that they resort to murder and genocidal thinking.

          I can also see how that statement could appear anti-Semitic, but it's not. Because this guy is in the same camp as school shooters and American "great replacement" nazis. They have totally bought into the lies and perpetuate violence in service of the fucked up systems they buy into.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            I say this not as a challenge but, I suppose, a failure of my reading comprehension. Which statement could be read as antisemitic?

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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              Just the phrase "people like this". We know here that I'm talking about reactionaries and zealots, but out of context it could be read as (((people like this)))

              I was talking about my own post of that wasn't clear

    • @dmonzel@lemm.ee
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      Some shitheads would still be bigoted pieces of crap and do fucked up shit like this, sadly.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        Think about it critically: How often is someone murdered in the USA specifically for being Irish? Even though they were once a wildly minoritized group, only a few steps in standing above the demonizing black people faced at certain points in history, and to this day lots of stereotypes that would suggest the Irish being thought of as alcoholic, violent untermenschen get tossed around casually, and yet today throughout the country you would need to search and search to find anywhere that someone would encounter actual violence, let alone be murdered for simply looking Irish, especially a child. Could you find literally one or two alcoves? I assume so, it's a big country with many cults and similar social formations, but that is nothing, nothing compared to the institution of Islamophobia (or anti-black racism) in this country.

        Murderous racism does not simply spring from the Earth fully-formed. It is cultivated, groomed, and endlessly reproduced by segments of the powers that be for specific social purposes. Treating it as simply something that happens due to random chance and the moral failings of individuals is a product of the liberal refusal to consider systemic solutions to problems.

        • @dmonzel@lemm.ee
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          Yeesh. All I meant was that you can't blame all of this on the media, and that even if by some miracle, all media stopped with their panicky bullshit, there would still be a good contingent of racist fuckwads who would continue to carry out violent acts.

          I'm not saying we shouldn't try making progress, I'm just saying there's more to it than one point of radicalization.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            You are still avoiding the question: "Where does racism come from?" Does it just emerge in the souls of Bad People from no previous source, or is it transmitted? Where is it transmitted from?

            Racism as we see it is a symptom of the imperialist social order, not a primary mover. There is no reason to believe that if we overturned that social order and made deliberate effort to root out the reactionary warping it has inflicted on the minds of useful idiots, that we would see incidents like this beyond the highest level of freak deviation from the norm, rather than the mere spike that the event in the OP represents. The world can be better, humanity can be better, but it requires looking more closely at what is currently making them worse.

            • @dmonzel@lemm.ee
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              Racism is a learned behavior, and there isn't one single source. This is what I have indicated multiple times. I'm unsure as to how this has become an argument.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                How is it learned? Do the owls teach it? Do the ferns? Perhaps the wind?

                • @dmonzel@lemm.ee
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                  ... bro, are you ok? You're making zero sense.

                  Just to appease you, one of the possible *many *ways to learn how to be a racist would be from the behaviors of the people around you, such as family and friends. The point I'm making is that the media is not the sole point of radicalization and that while them cleaning up their shit would help, it wouldn't completely eradicate racist fuckwads.

                  I'm not sure what you think I'm saying, but I'm just saying there's more to it than just one single thing. Now chill the fuck out.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    seeing shit on reddit-logo that this guy is a polish jew and that 'they need to be dealt with' (re: the jewish community). so much genocidal rhetoric out and about now. when will we get back to the point where the media decries germans and swedes as swarthy?

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      I truly believe some of that is intentional astroturf to discredit support of Palestinian liberation or being anti hate crime, as well as also internet pilled individuals so far down the racism pipeline they exist in some 5th dimensional space of hate.

    • @Gelamzer
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  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    media that whipped him up into a killing frenzy now condemns man they convinced to do this. No this won't effect how they portray muslims going forward

  • s0ngs0ng [undecided, des/pair]
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    "I know there's gonna be people who say, 'We condemn this heinous crime,' who will say, 'Hate has no home here.' That's not enough," Rashid said.

    President Joe Biden released a statement on Sunday evening, saying:

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    "This horrific act of hate has no place in America, and stands against our fundamental values: freedom from fear for how we pray, what we believe, and who we are."

    Literally doing the thing that the father told not to do.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      Biden two minutes later:

      "Those Palestinian terrorist babies deserved it."

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      "Condemning" a violent act is as effective as sending a prayer to the victims. You're the most powerful man in America and all you do is send empty words like you did after the last dozen mass shootings.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      "Don't just give us some useless platitudes and then do nothing"

      "No"- liberals

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had... vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done"

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    And the anti-muslim hate crime spree has already started.

    Won't let that stop MSM from fearmongering about roving gangs of antisemites beating up Jews though!

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    We need more music about Mao tbh

    Music brings people together, so maybe this is the only way forward

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Hey theres a significant lack of modern music w communist subtext. Going forward if youre gonna create political media that should be a standard

  • @uralsolo
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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      There absolutely should be controls on mass media, but it's one of those things where the mechanisms will only be abused by a government owned lock and key by capitalists, just as gun control is often implemented in cases where a community wants to defend itself from cops. There can be no solution except to separate the rich from the levers of state power in favor of a more genuine form of democracy.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      I'd rather all the monopolies be broken up into dozens+ more companies and allow actual difference of viewpoints to flourish instead of the current system that is completely controlled by corpos/government

      also there should be far more public access media than just a single one for a select few locations

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  • Mokey [none/use name]
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    He was a landlord too, you can just see who he was. His face is in the video, fox news boomer