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LA Times passed on Harris endorsement over her support for Israel (archive.ph)
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“As a citizen of a country openly financing genocide, and as a family that experienced South African Apartheid, the endorsement was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children.”

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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Holy shit you can feel the contempt the author of this article had for them not endorsing Kamala. It’s just seething rage every sentence

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And it’s wild too. It is absolutely shameful and fucking embarrassing for any journalist to endorse Kamala given the targeting of journalists by Israel.

    One of my best friends for years works for a local news network and she’s fully “We gotta vote Harris to stop Trump” and I can’t comprehend it.

    How is the mass killing of your colleagues not enough to turn you away? What the fuck is wrong with you? If I found out that biologists were being specifically targeted and murdered by some entity that would definitely stop me from supporting that entity.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Trump wants to turn the colonial violence inward, Harris wants it more external to the core in order to placate the Metropole. From a purely selfish standpoint, it makes sense. But it shows a complete lack of solidarity and consciousness

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    See and I understand that from the perspective of most Americans, but not journalists! The Biden-Harris administration has, via Israel, murdered more journalists than literally anyone ever in history.

    I saw someone say this like 2 hours ago but now can’t find it to save my life, “Journalists for Harris is like chickens for KFC”

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    “Journalists for Harris is like chickens for KFC”

    They arent tho, this is like saying soldiers voting for harris are wrong because harris is killing hundreds of hamas soldiers. They are different groups, a western journalists job is not to promote truth, it is to serve as the media apparatus for the state, in this case, to aid the genocide of the palestinians.

    The western journalist class are not idiots, they want to kill as many palestinian children as possible, and its their job to make sure the domestic proles feel good about it

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    • [–] 39 points 2 years ago*

    Huh, didn't know the LA Times was real like that, always assumed it was basically New York Times West

    Not to say that doing this alone is super radical or anything but it's still more principled than anyone voting Democrat

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    [+] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The owner already walked backed the statement and said he had his own reasons, different than his daughter's support of Palestine.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Somewhat based mainstream media?

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How exactly did they "experience" South African apartheid?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Soon-Shiong was born in South Africa, and under apartheid was considered "colored". Basically everyone that wasn't white was discriminated against, Chinese were legally second-class citizens.

    It was only well into the 70's, more than 20 years after his birth, that some Asians started getting "honorary white" status.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It was only well into the 70's, more than 20 years after his birth, that some Asians started getting "honorary white" status.

    Mostly Taiwanese and rich Japanese people, because they supported Apartheid South Africa. I think Asian in South Africa meant like Southeast Asian than the whole Asian continent.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    The LA Times has been trying its hardest to be an imperialist rag on the Washington Post New York Times tier for a long time now (well I guess it probably always was since it has existed for 142 years). I doubt this signifies any real change in the articles.

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