geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlBanned from community to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDefine "people under 18"imagemessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90arrow-down1·2 months agoYou might not be familiar with it but “people under 18” is a long standing propaganda trope. What Reuters could have said is “Children, defined as people under 18”. But they hit the “people under 18” keyphrase.
minus-squareevasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoIt’s because they want people to mentally subtract “military-age males” from the figures.
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-22 months ago “Children, defined as people under 18” People under 18 whom it defines as children Aside from including your ‘meme phrase’, I don’t see the difference
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoWomen and children are usually two subsequent words which imply innocent people not involved in any combat.
minus-squareflamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoOh, didn’t know about the meme, thanks
You might not be familiar with it but “people under 18” is a long standing propaganda trope.
What Reuters could have said is “Children, defined as people under 18”. But they hit the “people under 18” keyphrase.
It’s because they want people to mentally subtract “military-age males” from the figures.
Aside from including your ‘meme phrase’, I don’t see the difference
Women and children are usually two subsequent words which imply innocent people not involved in any combat.
Oh, didn’t know about the meme, thanks
“meme”