Comments on: Mideast protests: real-time tweet mapping http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 20:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: pt68 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032289 pt68 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032289 rebdav, I won't for a moment argue that anti-Jewish slogans aren't a bad turn of events (reference please). But two points: -From anyone I've ever spoken to, "jewish" in that area mostly means someone from Israel, not historic Judaism in its post-diaspora multiplicity. The lens they view jewish-ness through is mostly contemporary Israel, and . . . -Contemporary Israel doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to its relationship with Arab or Islamic peoples. I'm saying that only to point out that there's possibly more to the story than simple (totally misguided) anti-semitism. rebdav,
I won’t for a moment argue that anti-Jewish slogans aren’t a bad turn of events (reference please).
But two points:
-From anyone I’ve ever spoken to, “jewish” in that area mostly means someone from Israel, not historic Judaism in its post-diaspora multiplicity. The lens they view jewish-ness through is mostly contemporary Israel, and . . .
-Contemporary Israel doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes to its relationship with Arab or Islamic peoples.
I’m saying that only to point out that there’s possibly more to the story than simple (totally misguided) anti-semitism.

]]> By: rebdav http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032068 rebdav Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032068 Democracy is like nitroglycerin, it can be used to build something beautiful or it can tear everything you love apart like a small town lynch mob. I worry when I hear of the mobs chanting that Mubarek or Quadafi is a Jew or demonstrations in Tunesia calling for the eviction of the remnants of thousands of years old Jewish community. The Jews and Israel has been programmed in most Arab states media as the cause of everything from inflation to oppression to soggy cornflakes, that TV hate doesn't come out so easily especially when the most organized opposition happens to not be the hip American or British Muslims we all know but the kind that call for elimination of homosexuality and cutting out of all clitorises. Democracy is like nitroglycerin, it can be used to build something beautiful or it can tear everything you love apart like a small town lynch mob.
I worry when I hear of the mobs chanting that Mubarek or Quadafi is a Jew or demonstrations in Tunesia calling for the eviction of the remnants of thousands of years old Jewish community.
The Jews and Israel has been programmed in most Arab states media as the cause of everything from inflation to oppression to soggy cornflakes, that TV hate doesn’t come out so easily especially when the most organized opposition happens to not be the hip American or British Muslims we all know but the kind that call for elimination of homosexuality and cutting out of all clitorises.

]]> By: wygit http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032069 wygit Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032069 slightly off topic but funny. from @OHNewsroom.- "Slot editor reading a wire page: “So we have Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain — and Wisconsin?!” slightly off topic but funny.

from @OHNewsroom.- “Slot editor reading a wire page: “So we have Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain — and Wisconsin?!”

]]> By: rebdav http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032334 rebdav Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032334 Have to go, no time now, this is one well known story. Google is your friend. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/cbs_reporter_cairo_nightmare_pXiUVvhwIDdCrbD95ybD5N Have to go, no time now, this is one well known story. Google is your friend.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/cbs_reporter_cairo_nightmare_pXiUVvhwIDdCrbD95ybD5N

]]> By: rebdav http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032348 rebdav Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032348 time to google one for tunesis before I go, this is a blog, you can decide if the vid is a fake. http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/206314.php time to google one for tunesis before I go, this is a blog, you can decide if the vid is a fake.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/206314.php

]]> By: holtt http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032099 holtt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032099 rebdav, your comment is the first I've seen suggesting an anti-jewish twist on the activities. Could you provide some references? wygit, we may have already reached peak cheese, but just don't realize it yet. rebdav, your comment is the first I’ve seen suggesting an anti-jewish twist on the activities. Could you provide some references?

wygit, we may have already reached peak cheese, but just don’t realize it yet.

]]> By: JonS http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032103 JonS Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032103 Apparently the Lybian Army in Benghazi has changed sides, and is now supportting the anti-Qaddafi movement. Hurrah! :) Apparently the Lybian Army in Benghazi has changed sides, and is now supportting the anti-Qaddafi movement.

Hurrah! :)

]]> By: Moody75 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032107 Moody75 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032107 High res images from Benghazi are now on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/a7fadhomar/ High res images from Benghazi are now on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a7fadhomar/

]]> By: Aye http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032108 Aye Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032108 Looks like a really great way for the authorities to track down and disappear the protesters. If I were a protester...I sure wouldn't want my name, photo, and location to be aggregated and easily accessible to those that I am speaking up against. Looks like a really great way for the authorities to track down and disappear the protesters.

If I were a protester…I sure wouldn’t want my name, photo, and location to be aggregated and easily accessible to those that I am speaking up against.

]]> By: holtt http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032128 holtt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032128 Aye you have a point, but without broad sharing of the message, it won't get out. And I think some protesters are showing the amazing courage to stand up and say publicly what they feel. It's dangerous, but it's liberating. This really is a fascinating web mashup. It's awe inspiring to watch a revolution happen in real time. One just can't lose site of the fact that there are real people living (and dying) on the other end of those tweets. Aye you have a point, but without broad sharing of the message, it won’t get out. And I think some protesters are showing the amazing courage to stand up and say publicly what they feel. It’s dangerous, but it’s liberating.

This really is a fascinating web mashup. It’s awe inspiring to watch a revolution happen in real time. One just can’t lose site of the fact that there are real people living (and dying) on the other end of those tweets.

]]> By: travtastic http://boingboing.net/2011/02/20/mideast-protests-rea.html#comment-1032129 travtastic Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032129 And where did you read about that? And where did you read about that?

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