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On The Atlantic’s “The UN’s Gaza Statistics Make No Sense” (06/05/24)
1 hour 1 minutes Posted Jun 5, 2024 at 12:00 am.
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Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill children legally.” We take a close look at the piece and how the rest of the surrounding argument uses a veneer of data “objectivity” to mask its underlying idea: that Palestinian death statistics cannot be trusted simply because they are collected by Palestinians themselves.
Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/atlantic-gaza-statistics
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