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Why is it frowned upon to question the holocaust?

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Most reported on. Sure. Most inaccurately reported on? Definitely. I've no doubt over the coming years it's going to get worse too. When RTE start calling settlements "Jewish communities/neighbourhoods"(like the wholly sold out yanky media) you know we've crossed the line.

    The BBC is already there. They crossed the line when they refused to show an ad for Aid to Palestinian children during the Gaza conflict.

    The BBC even censor musicians.

    A British Muslim rapper called Mic Righteous was on a hiphop show on Radio 1extra, there have a regular slot once a week where a guest rapper goes into the studio and does a 3-5 minute freestyle called "fire in the booth", they have never censored anyone on the slot, ever but Mic spits the lyric

    "Maybe i've overdid it
    Is it, I ain't did it enough?
    I don't want my old fans to look at me in digust
    And discuss: "why's he always tryna make a number one?"
    It's a must, this ain't changing me I still have the same beliefs
    I can scream, "FREE PALEStINE"
    Die for my pride, still pray for peace
    Still burn the fed for the brutality they spread over the world
    Pakistan's an ocean
    Bodies in the brown water floating and still nobody helps
    I have to take a hold of myself
    Coz right now I feel a need to bang my head against this flippin' desk"

    And they bleeped the word Palestine, as if it was a ****ing swear word when it was added to the website and youtube playback channels. And worse yet, they didn't tell the rapper or the presenter until after they uploaded it and the order came directly from the DG of the BBC.

    And then on the same segment, a few months later, they bleeped out the words "Gaza Strip" from another rappers freestyle.


    It's ridiculous.

    They also banned the Lowkey song "Long Live Palestine" from BBC radio despite it being #1 on the iTunes charts for weeks.


    It's pretty easy to see where the BBC's favour lies on the subject.
    Oh and the man who made the decision, Mark Thompson, has well know links to Israeli lobbyists in London.

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/13/bbc-palestine-lyric-mic-righteous
    http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/05/26/in-further-case-of-censorship-the-bbc-deny-palestine%E2%80%99s-right-to-exist/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,984 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Occupation is a far more accurate description of what is really happening.

    Hence most media outlets go for the self-censorship option of conflict.

    Agreed. Conflict can make it seem like there's an equality in the sides involved, or that there is a parity or some sort.

    Occupation is, in fact, what is happening and it's a far more fitting appellation.


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