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Originally Posted by activeStick
I think this is a very fair post and you're correct, some on each side are dug in and once "news" comes out, it doesn't matter later if it needs to be (and subsequently is) corrected.
The same thing happened at the start of the war when the west was reporting "40 beheaded babies". People on this forum were outraged (rightly so), Hamas was quick to deny they did it, but nobody believed them because they're on the other side and "reputable sources" for those in the west such as CNN, MSNBC, etc. took the story and ran with it. In fact, Joe Biden even said he never imagined he'd ever see photos of beheaded babies suggesting he saw photo evidence.
"See!! We all knew they were the bad ones!!"
But then it was verified that it was all fake news. The WH walked back Biden's statements and some news outlets walked back their earlier claims, while others just left it. And similar to your example, online and on this very board, some continued to bring up the 40 beheaded babies, just because.
And in the end, it just keeps the hate and anger going. Palestinians lives are not equivalent to other human lives (we feel this way by referring to them as animals that live in raw sewage). Sad to watch happen, but not surprising.
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I see your point about the exaggeration of beheadings but Hamas did still kill hundreds of innocent civilians in very brutal manors.
Israel did not (so it seems) target and bomb a hospital at all.
Very different to dig your heels in where an atrocity did happen vs one where it wasn't even perpetrated by the side you're comdemning.