Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.

“We are aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank,” Reuters reported a State Department spokesperson as saying. The official declined to comment further “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones” of the reported victim.

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    For once I believe on that “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones”, because the BS the State Department spokesperson would have said instead would have been extremely infuriating for the mourning family.

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    It is a trend started that started a decade ago (ironically with Obama!) but the transition is now complete; Americans with a skin color, let alone if naturalized, are not considered “actual American” therefore no longer news worthy. At least, they still give a conditional pass to those darker skins conforming with the ideology of the presidency that happens to be ruling at the time.

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      You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don’t care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?

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          Don’t be deliberately disingenuous. And if you’re insist on it, then I’ll match you: point to where I said you used the word ‘only’ in your comment, in my comment.

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            You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon. There isn’t the same strong implication in Maple Engineer’s comment.

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              Can you point to where I said he thought it was a maga specific phenomenon?

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                Can I point to where I said you said that explicitly? I can point to where I said you said it implicitly though. (emphasis mine)

                You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon.

                You also more or less said it explicitly though, if you want to go down that route. I can’t quote a specific part of your comment because your entire comment is based on this suggestion. (emphasis mine again)

                You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don’t care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?

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              I am begging reddit debate lords to actually learn what ‘strawman’ means, rather than treating the wikipedia page on logical fallacies like a list of magic incantations.

              I am also begging them to just talk plainly: “You strawmanned me”, rather than this insufferable nerd sarcasm bullshit of “sorry you strawman didn’t work.”

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                I mean if, we’re being real, it was also a whataboutism. “What about what the democrats did?”

                Get better.

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      Don’t worry. Rachel Corrie was white and they killed her with the US’ knowledge too. US conservatives don’t even know she existed, liberals barely either.