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Mia Khalifa fired from Playboy for her pro-Hamas posts after the Israel attack
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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What did she say? I don't want news to tell me how to feel.
She said that the execution and murder videos would have been better viewing if they had flipped their phones horizontally.
I mean that's incredibly poor taste and way out of line, but I wouldn't call that "pro-hamas" or deserving of being fired.
It has more taste when you realise it wasn't referring to videos of the HAMAS atrocities, but of Israeli atrocities.
Some people take the portrait vs. landscape argument way to seriously.
There is no extreme too extreme in the war against the verticles.
And we still haven’t made a phone that does landscape video while held vertically.
Article says she said more, but doesn’t detail what it was.
Article lies. Also, the deleted tweet that got her immediately fired in a quotetweet? That was the one.
I thought you were joking at first. In what universe could this be considered supporting them?
How else do you interpret that statement?
Dark humour.
Consider the following fictional situation:
A news story comes out detailing a terrible tragedy where some people were stuck in a collapsed mine for months and that they had to eat one of their dead to survive. A horrible situation by all accounts. One of the miners is later interviewed and they mention how bad it was to have to eat someone. Someone then posts online saying this: "Next time it won't taste so bad if you add some salt and pepper."
Is the person who made the post condoning cannibalism? Of course not. Was the comment in poor taste? Absolutely. (Pun not intended)
maybe the "film horizontally" part.
but the "Freedom Fighters" Part is a clear Endorsement from her.
I was only referring to the "film horizontally" part, which is what the original comment (that I thought was a joke) was referring to.
right, but that's not what was bad about what she said. You can't just Cherry-Pick what you like and leave out what you don't.
how anyone can say that after seeing what they did to Shani Louk and all the others is a mystery to me.
This is absolutely inexcusable Behaviour and she should feel Consequences for it.
Hamas as an organization doesn't represent the Palestine people as whole, and an individual Hamas fighter even less so.
While your typical Palestine farmer might not be too fond of all the killing and murdering done by Hamas terrorists, atleast they're killing and murdering the people they perceive to be most at fault for the situation they're living in. Nobody can say, with a straight face, that there's not atleast a kernel of truth behind that belief.
Still - indiscriminately killing innocent civilians is not the way.
Right, but she was talking about the Hamas Fighters.
Uninvolved Palestinians didn't film shit. So they couldn't flip their Phones Horizontal.
She explicitly said she wasn't. She was talking about the civilians recording the Israeli retaliation attacks.
Most videos I've seen have either been recorded by civilians or IDF. I've only seen few from Hamas' point of view.
I thought Hamas was the democratically elected government of those people?
In Gaza yeah. Not on the west bank which is the bulk of Palestine. If I remember correctly those elections were like 17 years ago and they got around 45% of the vote
Oh! I heard they were democratically elected, I guess I just assumed it was part of a functioning democracy. No elections for seventeen years isn’t a functioning democracy though.
Does everything your government does reflect your personal wishes?
No, but it does represent me.
Not even that. She's not talking about HAMAS, but about average Palestinians filming atrocities by the IDF
I agree with Mia Khalifa
That's the true crime against humanity here.
It's pretty obvious what the intention was behind that original tweet and now she's trying to spin it because it's costing her money.
It was heinous! That’s all you need to know. The content has been judged and all you need to know is that judgment.
Imagine, a normal citizen attempting to interpret words himself!