I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

Mods, feel free to remove if this is not newsy enough.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s a reason every country that bitches about the BBC also gets accused of being far right authoritarians…

    BBC calls them out, but pulls just short of saying it. And there’s nothing far right authoritarians hate more than someone calmly telling the world exactly what they want. If we flat out called them nazis, they’d argue they’re not technically nazis they’re sparkling fascists.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      The only people the BBC have ever called Nazis are the actual Nazis, because they called themselves Nazis. So fair enough.

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      1 year ago

      I’m really sorry, but in case of Armenia, Artsakh and Azerbaijan BBC has been extremely pro-Azeri for many years, all the way to using Azeri place names which literally were invented 30 years ago when they were attempting (then unsuccessfully, now successfully) to depopulate those places.

      Now they seem to have made a 180 degree turn (still using Azeri place names, though), but that can be explained by there no longer being Armenians in Artsakh, so lying is no longer that necessary.

      Now, about nazis and Azerbaijan … you comment seems asinine in that context.