News media were deleting the word Palestinians from massacre casualty reports
Evidence
The most one can hope for at this point is not balance but simply the acknowledgement of the humanity of the Palestinians, that they are not “200” but ” Palestinians”—bleeding, bones broken, injured, murdered, buried, mourned, and soon to be revenged: Palestinians. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 509
Categorization
- CANDY: The contrast between ‘200’ and ‘Palestinians’ as a phrase for dehumanization is a striking, quotable observation about how counting victims erases their identity.
Related
- European outlets named Palestinian victims while American media left them anonymous (similarity 0.85)
- US media headlines systematically excised the word Palestinians from the dead (similarity 0.83)
- Mainstream Western headlines erased Palestinian identity behind bare casualty numbers (similarity 0.82)