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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 4 days ago (18 children)

I can't fucking believe western media wrote "harvested sperm" without thinking about how fucking psychotic that sounds. It could be described in so many other ways that make it sound less horrible but they really went for "harvesting" something from a corpse.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I personally feel like you shouldn't judge something based on how it's phrased. That seems a bit tone policy/civility brained.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

My point is that the western media constantly picks its words very carefully to dehumanise its enemies and frame its allies as moral and upstanding. "Harvesting" is anti regime language with negative connotations in people's minds when it comes from organ harvesting.

It's just surprising that nobody in the western media has realised how fucking freaky they're making it sound with this language. They usually wouldn't use language that has a negative vibe for their allies.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

when you can't find a good passive voice for cumjacking dead nazis so you have to forget years of anti-china rhetoric lmao

[–] naom3@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 days ago

You mean h3h3 having kids?

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