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Ryan Girdusky clashed with British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday night.

CNN has banned a conservative commentator from appearing on the network again after he told a Muslim journalist "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon that killed members of the Hezbollah militant group last month. 

Ryan Girdusky made the comment during a heated debate with Mehdi Hasan, a prominent British-American broadcaster and an outspoken critic of Israel's war in Gaza, on "CNN Newsnight" with host Abby Phillip. 

The guests were discussing the racist jokes made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, which overshadowed former President Donald Trump's rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday and continue to make headlines two days later.

As the debate turned fractious, Girdusky and Hasan sparred over whether the latter had been labeled an anti-Semite. "I'm a supporter of the Palestinians, I'm used to it," Hasan said.

Girdusky replied: "Well I hope your beeper doesn't go off."

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 262 points 1 day ago

I'm still flabbergasted that there hasn't been more of an international outrage concerning those pagers.

The use of mines as an indiscriminate weapon are already frowned upon,

And here they are using them, scattered throughout a civilian population with absolutely no regard to who could be standing next to their target.

Un-fucking believable.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 137 points 1 day ago

They bombed dozens of hospitals and orphanages across two countries and also started a starvation siege since that time.

There is no outrage left

[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago

There is no outrage left

This really hit me. As in maybe it explains some things since the internet was created. It’s indeed so hard to keep up.

[-] irreticent@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

It’s indeed so hard to keep up.

I know it's different, but that reminds me of the Gish gallop.

"The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available."

[-] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh no... Israel is doing the Gish gallop but for human rights atrocities... this explains it perfectly.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 32 points 23 hours ago

It was a terrorist attack. We must condemn all terrorist attacks

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 23 hours ago

We must condemn all terrorist attacks

At this point it'd probably be less work to praise them when (if?) they don't commit any...

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Every day Israel doesn't commit an atrocity, they get a cookie.

Fortunately, I like cookies, cause it looks like I'm going to be hanging onto them for a while.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Don't eat them all yourself though.

Otherwise Israel would have no incentive to stop.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

There hasn't been outrage because blowing up people with pagers is actually the most targeted thing Israel has done in the past year. Certainly a step up from killing hundreds of refugees to maybe take out one hamas guy.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 30 points 22 hours ago

They killed children in that pager attack. Which I guess is part for the course, so ya, nevermind, you might be right.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 day ago

Accused hamas guy

[-] godlessworm@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

well we know who could be standing next to their target- another brown person in a majority muslim country. IE, nobody western supremacist racist pigs give a fuck about which is why there was no punishment and there will be no punishment against israel for any single thing they do. if it were gonna happen it would have by now. it's not as tho once they get to that 300,000th dead palestinian suddenly the "rules based order" is gonna enact some of those "consequences for breaking the rules" on israel. not gonna happen. someone needs to dylan crooks netanyahu.

[-] 01011@monero.town 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There has been minimal pushback to the Israeli apartheid regime and decades long genocide in Palestine. You think a few more deaths are going to inspire real international action?

Not mines, IEDs. It was an indiscriminate terrorist attack on a civilian population using improvised explosive devices.

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[-] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 36 points 1 day ago

What's even crazier for me to wrap my head around is those pagers were a safer method for civilians than what they've been doing. They're indiscriminately leveling city blocks killing thousands of innocents.

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