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cajolions · 2 months

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My recommendation to you all for this week is this episode from the podcast Citations Needed about how the "human shields" argument is used by western media to create a double standard by which Israeli soldiers can kill Palestinian civilians and absolve themselves of responsibility for those civilian deaths. The episode explains how this line of propaganda has also been used during the Vietnam war and in other colonial contexts, and builds what I think is some really incisive commentary on how International Law can be used uphold colonial frameworks.

#citations needed #podcast recommendation #free palestine #text text text

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haveyouheardthispodcast · 18 days

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#Citations Needed #poll #news #society & culture

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alanshemper · 3 months

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Feb 7, 2024

"Viet Cong Use Children as Human Shields," the Associated Press alleged in 1967. "'Civilian casualty?" That's a gray area," Alan Dershowitz argued in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. "We can’t ignore the truth that Hamas uses human shields,”"Jason Willick wrote in The Washington Post in 2023.

For more than five decades, military forces with overwhelming firepower, including the U.S., Israel, and others have accused enemy combatants of using “human shields.” According to these allegations, militant resistance throughout the world, from the Vietnamese National Liberation Front to Palestinian militants, herd civilians in front of them, or hide in hospitals, religious institutions, and other public places, in order to evade attacks. In turn, they force the enemy to “risk” killing civilians, and they themselves bear responsibility for those who are killed.

But rarely, if ever, have these accusations been true. Indeed, the term “human shields,” despite having a clear legal definition, has become a catch-all for militias or insurgency groups that merely operate among a civilian population, functioning as a convenient pretext for invading, occupying and colonial forces to kill civilians, and reinforcing racist conceptions about besieged populations. So why, and how, do media provide cover for governments that lie about and instrumentalize supposed “human shielding”?

On this episode, we dissect the decades-old “human shields” accusation, examining how it dehumanizes and militarizes people living under occupation and invasions, demonizes resistance movements, and sanitizes civilian-killing aggressors as reluctant actors who "simply had no choice."

Our guests are Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini.

#human shields #hasbara #citations needed

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mommymarx · 5 months

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#spotify wrapped #chapo trap house #the deprogram #trueanon #seeking derangements #citations needed

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psicochurroz · 7 months

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#wikipedia #wikipe tan #citation needed #gijinka

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amygdalae · 1 year

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fun fact: in the 50s the Kent cigarette brand had a type of cig with micronite filters that literally had crocidolite in them, aka BLUE ASBESTOS, literally THE most lethal type of asbestos by a mile. and you could just buy it at the store and huff it

#even tho it was less commonly used than chrysotile or amosite asbestos a lot of sources im seeing say it may have caused more cancer deaths #citation needed on that but it really is much more lethal than the other types despite being a bit less common #it was also used in gas mask filters in like the 30s. though white asbestos seems to more commonly have been in gas masks overall #<- white asbestos is chrysotile

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ms-demeanor · 10 months

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Hey if you're looking for some decent leftist critiques of AI that don't tip into scaremongering and are much more realistic about the state of the industry that I think a lot of the people discussing this stuff on tumblr are, Citations Needed and It Could Happen Here both had recent episodes about this that are pretty reasonable in their approach (their approach broadly being that the problem is capitalism and also media narratives about AI either being the end of the world or replacing all creatives are both pushed by grifters).

#i disagree with the interviewee on citations needed in that i think anything strengthening IP law ever is bad #but other than that yeah i think these are pretty solid approaches to discussing the current AI boom

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sanjarka · 5 months

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YES KATNISS IS IN LOVE WITH PEETA BY THE END OF BOOK ONE I'M SORRY BUT I'M RIGHT

#i have much bigger problems in my life right now #like citations for example #but this needed to be said #thg #everlark

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oikyskau · 1 year

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seeing kenji muto, the director of trigun stampede, reading an article about the portrayal of women in media made me want to take a little bit of a closer look at the women in trigun and as i was rambling about this earlier to my partner, they told me to write it down LMAO

as most of us know, in a lot of fiction, women are mostly characterised through common tropes, leading to a lack of complexity and a one-dimensional portrayal: as the doting wife, the femme fatale, the mistress, or the virgin. Their role only amounts to an Other, an extension of the male hero. they’re either the whore or the madonna.

for female characters in anime that usually means they’re either the sexy femme fatale, big badonkers and all to be gazed at, the mother, the helpless damsel in distress, or the child (yet, still sexualised despite the fact that it is a literal child); they’re portrayed through the way they are being perceived by men and mostly sexualised beyond belief.

tristamp doesn’t do any of that.

in fact, the female characters in stampede achieve something that you don’t often see in anime: they are people. and stampede makes that clear in its very first episode by decidedly not going the route that you would usually take with the female characters they introduce:

of course, the biggest example here would be meryl, who i’d argue is the biggest driver of the plot, despite the fact that the plot of stampede is technically determined by vash - vash is an entirely passive character, he doesn’t make things happen, things happen to him and they mostly happen to him because of meryl. she’s the one who unties him, she drags them to the city, she makes them stay with him after ep3, she drives over wolfwood (rip my man), she stops for them to find rollo, she makes them follow the steamer.. you get it. she does all of this, despite being introduced as the newbie, the innocent person who would usually be the damsel in distress, who is helpless and shy and easily manipulated and who will probs be sexualised in her role as the “virgin” (sexually naive young girl who just doesn’t get all this adult sexuality yet hehe)

but she’s not – she wears a non-sexualised outfit, she only gets called out for being a newbie, or for being small height-wise by wolfwood, but not for being a “girl”, she determines the action despite the fact that she does have a mentor figure and is therefore still in a position of a student – she still isnt an extension of roberto, vash, or anyone

in fact, the other characters – Rosa, Elendira, Luida, Rem – all take up roles that would in other media be portrayed in very specific ways: Rosa could just be a pregnant mother, who is also a divorcee, Elendira could be an innocent child beholden to her caretaker, Luida could be the loving motherlike figure and rem the Madonna figure, symbolising all the virtues a woman should aspire to have. – Rosa is a leader, her pregnancy is mentioned one single time and never made a bigger part of her character, Elendira is young but powerful, making choices by herself that are not inherently based on any kind of innocence, Luida doesn’t coddle Vash or prioritise him over her own work and mission (which also serves to inspire another woman, meryl!!), and rem is also just a non-perfect person, with secrets and questionable morality

none of these women are judged on the basis of their gender, none of them experience gender-based violence, none of them are made into a joke, none of them are sexualised (or desexualised – if you compare them to the male characters, who also do not ever make jokes about sexual promiscuity or similar stuff), they have different body types (rem has a very pronounced chest, and yet stampede doesn’t ever focus on it or give her cleavage) – note also that when presented with the perfect opportunity to call a female character a “bitch”, they chose to go with a “witch” instead, in both original japanese and english dub

their femininity is not used as a weapon against them, nor are stereotypical hypermasculine elements used to define characters’ positive traits (vash not being our traditionally hypermasculine hero for example) - the only time we see a semblance of gender-based violence is, you guessed it, at the very end, when knives forcefully takes control and bodily autonomy away from vash and inseminates the plants against their will (also interesting to note that knives, as the character that does exhibit that kind of violence, is the only character to be shown incredibly buff and all muscle)

the women in tristamp are written for women, with the goal to be women that we can recognise, that represent the women that we are and know

anyways, i love all women in tristamp and have not once felt uncomfortable or said “oh look, a panty shot” and honestly i just find that pretty neat

#trigun stampede #trigun #meryl stryfe #rem saverem #trigun meta #ramblings #dont take this too seriously its just me being very nerdy for female characters LMAO #a lot of anime that i like fall into the trap of writing female characters for men and in relation to other male characters and i honestly #expect it at this point but PHEW was i going help WOMEN??? during tristamp #also do i need to add a citation bc im technically just citing my own thesis..... LMAOO

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kingofsmalldeath · 19 days

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sobbing at this sentence from the dungeon meshi wiki

#(citation needed)#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #chilchuk tims #laios touden #me post

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comradekatara · 18 days

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sokka as a wikipedia admin in modern au makes so much sense, actually

no exactly like it would be such a good hobby for him bc it allows him to release all his pent up “well actually” + “you people are idiots” energy and actually funnel it into something that positively contributes to the world. unfortunately it also means he has no real leg to stand on when he lectures katara on how twitter rots your brain and profits off of generating outrage and she should really just get off that app (and all the other apps) if she doesn’t want to suffer from some kind of heart disease by the time she’s 30. because then katara will just be like “you know sometimes you leave your laptop open and i can see your history on wikipedia where you spent the past 7 hours adding [citation needed]s to every single article from particle physics to poison dart frogs to the history of metallurgy to maoism to the production timeline of shrek 4: forever after. and yet you claim that i’m the one who needs help.”

#10000dandelions #asks #modern au #sokka #katara #katara&sokka #he’s obviously adding more than JUST ‘citation needed’#like he’s making whole pages on niche topics you’ve never even heard of #but for the purposes of this joke.#sokka being terminally online but only on various online scholarly databases and quora.com and that’s it #(he tried reddit once but that realm proved too infuriating for his sensitive mind)#he has one of those ‘jstor and chill’ shirts #yue got it for him

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wearesorcerer · 2 months

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