I'm not doubting @megangarber's depiction of Fox News, but I've seen the exact same claims levied against university/academic/intelligentsia types who embrace "critical theories"
I don't watch Fox enough to comment on them, but singling out Fox for language manipulation after weeks of MSM outlets reporting on "mostly peaceful" violent riots to me speaks more of the author's partisanship than it does out of concern for truthful reporting.
So yeah, knock Fox all you want for manipulating language to further narratives and distorting truth for partisan gain.
But don't for a moment pretend this is a problem unique to Fox.
If you can't see it when it's coming from your side, then you're part of the problem.
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1. I see @shadihamid's post has gained a lot of attention, and deservedly so considering he touches on important concepts such as citizenship, freedom, and liberalism.
2. The first question to ask when discussing the expectations of assimilation is what constitutes "assimilation." This entails two components: 1. What traits, beliefs, practices, etc. ought to be modified for 2. what sort of social privileges?
3. In the highlight, the point of contention is the "right to be in the United States." There are two suggested dependencies: 1. Convergence with cultural mainstream and 2. Anything.
2. I first noticed the following back in college, but HT to @ManilanH for inspiring me to write this now and to @AriLamm for his "Why to Read the Bible in Hebrew" series for reasons that will become apparent shortly.
Plus, it's relevant to this week's Torah reading.
@ManilanH @AriLamm 3. In the Biblical narrative of the Exodus, Pharaoh refuses to let the people of Israel leave, God (through Moses) brings a total of 10 plagues to induce Pharaoh to "let my people go."
2. First, here's Jason Stanley on "The End of Civic Compassion." Setting aside the laughability of the Before Time being an era of hand-holding, we've got a kicker of a paragraph in the next tweet newrepublic.com/article/181274…
3. Painting all of your political opponents as communists is fascist. Painting all your political opponents as fascists is not (and let's not even start with white-supremacy)
For those insisting on differentiating between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole, as recently as March 2023, 58% of those polled by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research supported armed confrontations. pcpsr.org/en/node/938
And from June 2022, "59% view armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel as serving the national interest in ending the occupation and 56% support these attacks" pcpsr.org/en/node/912
The pertinent question is not if Palestinians support the specific parties of Hamas or Fatah, but if they support murdering Jews.