re: #135 Gepetto

do you really think journalists bothered to document every Palestinian gunshot that day? Of course they celebrated, and gunshots are usually part of the celebration. what does this matter?

“What does this matter?” is a good question. Is it fair to present the US to foreigners by picking the worst footage/news items, like the Phelps pickets or Tea Party rallies? Kavkaz Center (I hope you know what it is) has a whole section where they post news items about the “decadent West”. All the murders, rapes, gay marriage ( ;) ), Koran burnings, whatever. If they were my “window” to the West, I would think it’s some hellhole.

Things like these celebrations need to be reported, but e.g. in hands of Pam and some other bigots and/or racists the footage in question becomes nothing but a tool to promote their particular bigotries (be it anti-Muslim bigotry or anti-Palestinian racism). And in the larger scheme of things these specific celebrations indeed don’t matter much.