A message from Dr MAUNG ZARNI ON MEDIA BIAS, including AI
Western mainstream, corporate and public (such as BBC), are evidently peddling recognizably White and Western imperialist lines. Just simply juxtapose the radically two different ways in which the Western media cover the war in Ukraine (where Christian, White-skinned, blue-eyed and blond-haired victims of Russian invasion got 24/7 support coverage) to Israel's indisputably genocidal destruction of Gaza and other atrocious crimes in the rest of the occupied Palestine.
The media (and the political class) that only several years
ago talked about Ukraine's pervasive corruption and strong currents of Neo-Nazi
popular sentiments has made a radical reversal of its view, as soon as the
Washington-baited Russian invasion of that country took place. All
of a sudden in the Western media's 24/7 coverage of Ukraine, Ukrainians
are "just like us, Christian, blue-eyed, blond-haired and civilized"
being mauled by the aggressive and nasty Russian bear of Putin. BBC
Journalists were tweeting how to throw molotov cocktails at the Russian tanks
or the do-it-yourself IED methods, without concealing their official journalist
identities.
By the same token, the very same outlets bend over backward
to toe Israel's line (lies), portraying verbatim Palestinian armed resistance
as "savages" "terrorists" "rapists" "baby
beheaders", without independently verifying any IDF-supplied story
of Hamas' atrocities. In addition, the media goes out of its way to
humanize every grown-up Israeli is an ex-IDF or current IDF, it bears pointing
out - killed, either by the IDF itself (which has the policy of killing their
own citizen, in the face of any hostage scenario), or the Palestinian
resistance - name, the named of aggrieved Israel families, the mental
well-being, education, aspirations, etc.
In sharp contrast, the Western media has definitely adopted
Stalinist standpoint, which goes something like, "one person's murder is a
human story. but the mass murder of millions is statistics" (not exactly
the verbatim quote). But you got the drift.
It's OK for journalists and citizens alike to show how to
kill Russian soldiers and how to destroy a tank in Ukraine. Notably,
the then Prime Minister Lizz un-Trust-worthy whose tenure was
shorter than a lifespan of a genetically modified lettuce - would openly
advocate Western citizens going to Ukraine to fight - as if the world was back
in the days of the anti-Fascist resistance of Catalonia.
But try shouting "From the river to the sea"
publicly, you are enlisting yourself in the Britain's
"terrorist" registry or simply courting trouble for the hollowed up
"anti-Seminitic" label.
Never mind that the slogan was in fact the official slogan
of the ruling Likud party, founded by Israeli whom Einstein, Arendt etc.
publically called Fascists and Nazis as early as the founding year of Israel -
1948.
This type of white racist, imperialist slant is not confined
to the conventional mediums such as TV, newspapers etc.
The social media platforms - Facebook, X or Twitter,
Instagram, YouTube etc. - are programmed to "weed out" any voice that
equates - rightly and accurately - Israel's policies and practices towards
Palestinian people to those of the Nazis from Hitler's Germany.
My facebook account is publicly verified - meaning my
account is real, credible and it is unlikely to promote Face News. And
yet its "shadow-banned for anything that has the word genocide, Israel,
Fascist, Nazi, Imperialist, White Supremacy, etc. I have over 100,000
"followers". If I post anything with those scannable words, a
few people will see what I post. I can post family pictures, nature
photos, flower pictures, etc. then all of a sudden I will have
hundreds or sometimes thousands of "Likes".
A few days ago, my wife Natalie did an experiment with
different AI programs on Facebook, Google, etc. She asked the AI to
write a paragraph about Myanmar genocide of Rohingya, or China's persecution of
Uyghurs. The AI offered fairly empirical portrayals of these
genocidal cases. Alas, when she asked Google AI to give her similar
paragraph about Israel's genocide and Gaza. AI's response was
"I aim to be helpful. (but) ..." (See the 3rd column in the
screenshot below from Nat's Facebook public post.
All this is NOT a wonderful technological
thing:
all this is pre-programmed by the Zionists who own and
control these social media platform. Elon Mush was known to be an
anti-Jewish S. African who openly expressed his anti-Semitism on the X or
Twitter platform he had purchased at $45 billion. Then Netanyahu
invited him to come to Israel and rolled out a red carpet to the world's
richest Jew-hater.
Musk toned down his racist tweets.
Whether we recognize it or not, the battle lines have
been redrawn. In wars, you can't sit on the fence. Even the
ultimate deconstructionists - the likes of Foucault and Derrida - felt
compelled to take side - the side of the oppressed, while knowing full well
that nothing is 100% morally good or bad. Both of them were seen marching
on the streets of Paris for whatever protest rallies that moved them, in spite
of their anti-foundationalist philosophies/ideologies.
I for one take sides. The side of the oppressed,
despite the moral imperfections of the members of the oppressed.
That's what I told the embedded American journalist and a fellow delegate
Jim DeBrosse on our 30-person delegation to Palestine back in Sept.
Jim decided to use parts of conversations in his story
below.
"Once you know, you know. You can’t unknow it. And then you
have to make a decision. Do you ignore the genocide and go on with your life?
Or do you try to do something about it?"
Opinion: Increasing violence in the West Bank cannot be ignored
Jim DeBrosse | Opinion contributor
Read Jim's op-ed, free of charge in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 11
Nov 2024
Zarni
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