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For the people who don't understand the tweet:
Denying Palestinians a communal identity has always been a key approach to dehumanization within Western discourse.
The Western world has historically tied itself into knots justifying horrific atrocities like the Atlantic slave trade while trying to present itself as a champion of personal freedoms.
Indeed. And also he is putting a few people who have a relative guarding the concentration camp on the same level of suffering as the people in the concentration camp undergoing a Holocaust. This is not a both sides moment.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
It's weird how many major news briefs use the same language though, isn't it? I'm not sure where they're getting it, but NPR uses exactly the same lingo.