“The US government will evacuate US citizens who have been unable to book commercial transit…”
And “The US embassy is not evacuating US citizens at this time. There is a commercially available flight available…”
There’s a word we Americans like to use for liars who stretch the truth to fit their narrative: Republicans. Be a shame if we had to change it.
Scary the amount of people on Lemmy who just didn’t read what little text is there.
I upvoted after reading the first couple sentences because I already know Biden is a racist.
I know Biden is a racist because there’s no way he’d do to any white people what he’s doing to the Palestinians.
The Palestinians will never, ever, ever get the kind of sympathy the Ukrainians are getting, because the Palestinians aren’t white.
That reads like it comes from a healthy mind.
Turn the TV, phone and computer off for a few days my guy. Pick up that hobby you’ve been putting off, as long as it’s not making pipe bombs.
Downvote all you want, you know I’m right.
He was born in 1942. He probably thinks white people are the world’s civilizing force, and the Palestinians are getting what they deserve for refusing to accept their white colonialist masters.
He probably thinks third-world countries “aren’t real countries”, but he has to pretend otherwise because of “political correctness”.
He probably thinks Israel isn’t bombing the Palestinians fast enough, and complains to Bibi that America could do it faster.
If he thought anything else, he would be unusual for his age.
Does it not say “those unable to book flights”?
When it’s white people: there’s commercial flights available but some are unable to book (because tickets limited? Because those people are too poor? No idea) so we have to use gov funds to make sure no one is left behind
When it’s “brown” people: commercial flights are available if you’ve got the cash, if not, go fuck yourself
I think this is probably a dumb question, but I’ve never thought about it before and sure-as-shootin’ don’t know. The screenshot indicated one group of Americans is considered white and one is not. Is that a known perception? It’s a total first-heard for me and I just… shit, it’s never even crossed my mind to think about that.
TIA
I don’t think I know anyone who would consider an “Israeli-American” to be white, or even any whiter than “Lebanese-American”, and I’m solidly Midwestern.
I kind of want to send out a bunch of messages to people asking if they consider one “white” or “whiter” than the other…
I know plenty of people who will give Israel carte Blanche simply because it “needs to exist for Jesus to come back” though, so answers wouod be skewed I imagine.
Sorry I didn’t really answer your question, I’m interested to hear other people’s takes as well.
Jews go into the “white” bucket for ethnicity while Muslims go into the “brown” bucket. Anecdotally in America at least this seems true of their general skin color. I’d say a large part is also that America hasn’t really valued any middleast Muslim lives since 9/11 (perhaps earlier but I’m not that old).
This interpretation makes no sense. They’re evacuating people from Israel, but not Lebanon. It has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the citizen specifically. It’s not as if a Lebanese American in Israel would be denied, which is what the stupid Twitter post and this post claim.
You can still buy a flight out of Lebanon, which seems to be what the messages are getting across.
If you’re in Israel, it seems commercial flights are hard to come by, and the US will help you charter a ride home.
If you’re in Lebanon, there’s still commercial flights available and you should GTFO ASAP.
That’s the point. That’s the whole ass point. Lebanon is getting the snot bombed out of it and Israel looks ready to invade. But we’re not evacuating Americans.
The British have already told all British citizens to leave and have an evacuation force in Cyprus. But Biden is like, “fuck you, good luck!”
This seems like a troll baiting thread. I don’t know enough to tell completely so I’m going to lock it.