• derbis@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I’m not sure why this is regarded as an acceptable source at all, frankly.

    Edit: for more detail, the founder of this paper is Seth Klarman, an American billionaire who also founded university campus initiatives that carry water for Israel and engage in anti-muslim and anti-Arab activities in the US. He’s also involved in blatant propaganda outfits like MEMRI, CAMERA, and Birthright.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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      10 months ago

      for a variety of reasons:

      • we don’t have a rule against what is effectively posting cringe and i am opposed to a rule of that sort on principle
      • what is considered cringe is a completely subjective and arbitrary judgement that, if we made it a rule to not post cringe, would lead to a lot more bickering about sourcing. it’d also almost certainly make this place a lot less interesting, a lot more ideologically homogeneous, and a lot more prone to confirmation bias
      • personally, i am just not all that interested in trying to parse “trustworthy” and “untrustworthy” sources beyond the absolute minimum “is this a crank blog or self promotion”, especially when media is not heterogeneously trustworthy on every possible issue. i don’t think most of our mod team is interested in trying to parse such a thing either
      • we generally trust our userbase to be discerning
      • we generally trust our userbase to be self-regulating etc.
    • anachronist@midwest.social
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      10 months ago

      And yet we’ll see which story gets more traction in the US press: this one about some random Hamas “bigwig” rejecting two state, or the one from yesterday about Netanyahu himself rejecting two-state.