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CNN: Osama bin Laden letter appears to be going viral on TikTok (www.cnn.com)
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Not sure what to make of this. TikTokers' first anti-imperialist "theory" being from a far-right anticommunist religious zealot with valid criticisms but no real analysis and a bit of "Jews control everything" seems perfect for the mainstream media to weaponize. On the other hand, people are realizing America are the bad guys and terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, and will hopefully learn more, far better stuff?

Tiktok took the videos down but I screenshot these two comments lmfao: joker-laden

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CNN article (the thing I linked in the post was a video)

FOX News, NBC, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Reuters, TIME Magazine, The Hill, etc. all reported on it in the past few hours. You got headlines like "Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'"

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Regarding those comments, agony-shivering there are so many better things to read about America being the great Satan

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

Just goes to show that the people reacting this way haven't read anything political and just trusted the narrative they were told.

But it's kinda funny their 'radicalizing' moment is Osama bin Laden from beyond the grave on TikTok videos. It sounds like a skit.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

the only conclusion possible is that Michael Parenti should commit a massive act of terrorism

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I know we're all supposed to be cool and with it but fuck it I'd never heard of this letter either. Like I knew he'd talked about his motivations before and I knew they weren't about freedom or whatever but I'd never once heard that this letter exists

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Same tbh, it's more just like the contents of the letter didn't surprise me

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago

I think “he was right” is a pretty understandable if reductive reaction to learning about his articulated motivations in his own words for the first time after being told their whole lives that the attack was unprovoked and motivated only by his personal fury at the idea that America was “so free”. His explanation, while having plenty wrong with it, is more reflective of observable reality than the uniform narrative Americans are told by their government.

I’m not too terribly worried about American teenagers reading it and deciding that a life of committed Islamic fundamentalism is for them — I just don’t think the conditions are there to support that kind of thing being an attractive prospect — but I think learning to question imperial narratives, seek out primary sources, and consider the common humanity of people they’ve only known as caricatures are important steps in developing a historical materialist worldview.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Americans when they learn that their enemies have motivations 🤯

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Yeah this is a think tank psyop

[-] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can just link the full text instead of copy-pasting it. It took me 20 minutes to realize it.

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