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I also came upon a post and discussion thread on tinyrevolution.com. The post was disheartening, setting up a simplistic, cynical analogy implicating both Arab and Israeli children as sick little killers.
I understood Schwarz's intent differently here. There is (or was, it's been a while for me) a trope on LGF called "Palestinian child abuse" or something like that. It involves showing photos -- and sadly, apparently authentic ones -- of West Bank, Gaza, etc. kids dressed in suicide bomber mockups, or in military garb, etc. I think Schwarz was simply pointing out that the impulse to indoctrinate kids with hatred and use them for propaganda purposes is not as one-sided as certain wingnut propaganda has implied.
Bloodthirsty Children Or Media Missiles?
So many of you wrote me about these images, I felt I had to address them. But then, I struggled for a long time to find my orientation. I even did a couple write ups based on the politics and ethics of these images -- feeling, the whole time, however, like something was off. The major...
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