“It’s a lot of young Jewish-Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand,” Clinton said. “A lot of the challenge is with younger people. More than 50 percent of young people in America get their news from social media.”
It's not that everything Hillary Clinton said at the Israel Hayom summit is wrong. Young people have had their attention spans compromised by screentime. That makes thinking things through an insurmountable chore for some.
But she doesn't really want Zoomers to have more context. She wants them to have protocol. The rule is that you just do not criticize Israel, regardless of what you or anyone else sees them doing. And for some reason this Methodist midget thinks she can take young non-Zionist Jews to task for jewing wrong. It beggars belief.
If you're going to make the endcap of your public career about how you should have been elected President and shattered the glass ceiling, you simply have to do better than this. Nobody wants to hear the old establishment whine.
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It appears to me that a lot of young Americans, including Jewish ones, get a lot more information than used to be reported and the main problem isn't the fact they get news on social media but that the mainstream media continues to be very unreliable.
You're right that young people (and older ones too) have had their attention spans severely compromised by screentime. We were discussing just this morning social media is the main reason many young people have developed such short attention spans they're incapable of watching movies, or reading books for that matter. An insurmountable chore indeed.
It's not obligatory to watch TikTok or whatever to know about the atrocities and war crimes being committed by the IDF in Gaza and Palestine when the soldiers themselves have posted their crimes to youtube. We don't watch much social media but we do read. We'll never forget Hillary was pretty much solely responsible for the destruction of Libya's progressive government and Gadaffi's brutal murder.
The best you can say about Hillary Clinton is she's an arrogant Gentile lecturing young Jews who live their own Jewish values by opposing Israel's crimes. Her habit of encouraging evil wherever it most most benefits her ends is her legacy. Nobody wants a President with that attitude.
If the mainstream media were trying to make sure that their most reliable viewers never learned anything about the world, they couldn't do a better job. And it's hard to avoid the conclusion that that's exactly what they are trying to do.
Parents are well advised to limit their children's screen time and encourage the development of other interests in whichever way they can. But the few who do will likely be producing outliers, not shaping the majority. In the meantime, the future is here, and it's filled with glitching brains.
Those who think that TikTok caused a big reaction against the IDF probably have it backwards. The sentiment was already there, and the social media sites only influenced the form it took. America's overthrow (color revolution?) of the government in Libya was just petulant. It should have been obvious that unless we could impose a stable new status quo there, massive problems would exist for the whole of Northern Africa. And we probably never had that capability.
The people she's lecturing would present a much better and brighter future for Judaism than the Zionist tendency does. She represents the dubious wisdom of the political establishment, especially as it involves foreign policy. Donald Trump was more right than wrong in turning away from it. Unfortunately he couldn't stay turned away, so he's been currying favor with them.
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