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AP redact name calling Tweet about migrants
Last edited Mon Oct 22, 2018, 08:47 PM - Edit history (1)
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Read more: https://apnews.com/c3eaa50bbf8a4cdf9fc5c0952225e1bc
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AP redact name calling Tweet about migrants (Original Post)
laserhaas
Oct 2018
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BumRushDaShow
(129,068 posts)1. This is how "the media" is
No different than calling POC "looters" or "rioters" while calling whites "finders" or "overly jubilant".
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)2. Exactly!
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)8. +1
0rganism
(23,955 posts)3. aaaand they got to say it again during the retraction
class war continues unabated
niyad
(113,329 posts)4. "poorly chosen"? how about, "pure BS reichwing propaganda we were spewing"?????
William Seger
(10,778 posts)5. Did they change it to "wretched refuse"?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)6. K & R
Last edited Mon Oct 22, 2018, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)
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CottonBear
(21,596 posts)7. The people are refugees & asylum seekers NOT migrants.
The AP and all of the MSM have poorly chosen the wrong label for these people who are fleeing violence and terror.
niyad
(113,329 posts)10. not "poorly chosen"--DELIBERATELY chose-- reichwing propaganda at work.