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TIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

then why even ask someone to source a claim that's funded to make it biased when all media is biased?

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All media serves the funders and context from which it comes. There is no escaping this, only understanding and compensating

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

how do you compensate when you believe that all media is biased and all the news is fake?

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Biased and fake are entirely different things but it's not easy. The general idea is to get sources outside of your geopolitical context to compare against the sources that have the same biases you were raised with

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Well the biases I have growing up are complicated. I don't do well with confrontation and prefer more peaceful paths of diplomacy, and do not like any acts of violence.