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Journalist sacked for doing actual journalism at EU press conference (europeanjournalists.org)

submitted 3 days ago by merdaverse@lemmy.zip to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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News is from last year, but it's still dystopic for anyone that missed it:

At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”

on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.

The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”

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[+] Riverside@reddthat.com -11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Russia is absolutely not deliberately inflicting group conditions calculated to bring their destruction. Compare civilian casualty rates in the US invasion of Iraq vs Russia's invasion of Ukraine. You are grasping at individual instances, not widespread practices.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are targeting civilian infrastructure and residential buildings hundreds of kilometres away from the front.

[+] Riverside@reddthat.com -7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Give me figures for civilian casualty rates and compare them to other modern conflicts like the Invasion of Iraq. You're again talking from isolated incidents and not generalized practice.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's with the white washing russias genocide in Ukraine? Jesus fucking christ what's wrong with you?

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Everything is a genocide" is a form of genocide minimization against actual genocides, which is why the term should be strictly applied only to actual genocides.

You can condemn the invasion without engaging in fictitious claims of genocide.

From wikipedia:

"Political scientist Neta Crawford estimated 323,000 dead in the war by July 2025, with an average rate of 7,690 killed per month—surpassing the average of 2,826 killed per month in the Gaza war and 772 killed in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). According to Crawford, while civilians accounted for 80 percent of the fatalities in the Gaza war and 26 percent in the War in Afghanistan, only four percent of those killed in Ukraine were civilians."