Full tweets with context: https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1932168427470516520
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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There is no protest against the status-quo that the press (including "the liberal press") can't depict as violent. You have seen the female Australian reporter being targeted with a rubber bullet on camera only to have her own channel report it as her "being caught in the crossfire" right? Hasan was out there for two days documenting the incredible violent reaction of law enforcement to what has been almost completely non violent protests against the unlawful kidnappings of immigrants. He knows what he is talking about. If your concern is not the well being of the protesters but three fucking waymos or people waving Mexican flags, you are just self-reporting.
Rubber-coated bullet*
This is the title of the article you linked. She wasn't shot by a rubber bullet. We saw that she was deliberately targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by a police officer while reporting on the protests, an action both illegal and against LAPD policy. It's not a mistake or a coincidence the title is worded in a way to minimize this incident and the involvement of the police, it's propaganda. And when Bernie implies these protests are violent, which they are not, he gives credibility to this propaganda when he should be unequivocally condemning police violence.
I'm kind of amazed that we are two years into the Gaza genocide and you still do not know the difference between active and passive media voice.
This is irrelevant. The brains of people only register what they see in the headline.
The perpetrator is the cop.
There shouldn't need to be "clues"
I think they're point is that a better headline might be something like "Reporter targeted and shot with rubber bullet by police". That more clearly calls out that it was intentional and not a stray, which most people are probably going to assume.
I understand you; the point is it’s not just grammatical pedantry. Passive language is deliberately used to reduce feelings of culpability. “The suspect died in custody” is less blame pointing than “Police denied suspect treatment for injuries, leading to his death in custody”.
Even if people understand that the police would be the ones with the rubber bullets, there’s an emotional response behind “Police shot at reporter” that you don’t get from “reporter was hit by bullet”.
How is Bernie's statement "leaning into the hysteria"