Comment on Memory Wiped
Zpiritual@lemm.ee 17 hours agoI’ll keep “obsessing”/highlighting over how a atrocious thing was done and then ignored after the fact. If this shit that happened in the middle of the main square in the capital for all the world to see isn’t fully recognised by the leadership and government what other potentially vastly more horrible things are being executed in their name elsewhere?
The answer is we don’t know and as long as what obviously happened isn’t fully acknowledged we have no reason to even give them any benefit of the doubt in any related matters based on anything they claim. That’s what is being "oppsessed"about.
Objection@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
And so you speculate and assume the worst. It’s very easy to manipulate this perspective through propaganda, and the media does so all the time. Instead of saying things outright, which they might be held accountable for if the claims are later disproven, you’re led to fill in the gaps with your own imagination. So, a person is said to have “disappeared,” and you immediately think they’re in some black site, but if they reappear and it turns out they were fine all along, the media can say, “Well, we personally didn’t know where they were.”
Of course, there’s also stuff that the CIA covered up for decades, such as the 1953 Iranian coup. And most people are simply unaware of it because it’s never discussed in the news. I suppose it’s different in that it was done to a foreign country but I’m not sure that makes it better. In any case, they have the capability to do things like that without the public’s knowledge.
No doubt, any comparison between the two will be met with “whataboutism,” regardless of the relevance of the comparison. But shouldn’t we also say that it’s impossible to say what, “potentially vastly more horrible things are being executed in their name elsewhere” regarding the US?