German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.

  • AreaSIX @lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Mentioning Tiananmen Square, an example of internal repression with a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands estimated fatalities, in the same sentence as two cases of near complete genocides of other ethnicities is wild. Do you not see how distorted that is as a comparison? In that comparison, you’re either trying to minimize the genocides of the Nazis, the Americans and the Turks, or raise the level of a case of internal repression with limited casualties to be comparable to massive historical crimes against humanity. Neither makes you look great.

    • Eternal192@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      Why should any loss of life be less tragic? you then have an even bigger issue than me, because to you it seems it’s ok to exclude a smaller genocide just because the Chinese stopped killing their citizens when it reached a few thousand, no loss of life should be disregarded just because the numbers didn’t get higher, so their sacrifice is worth less because fewer died!??

      • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 days ago

        I don’t think you properly understand the word genocide and especially the weight of the Schoa; you can’t compare industrial genocide and extermination with some political crackdown…