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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Who financed Hamas to destabilize the PLO? Israel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Mehdi is the GOAT.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago

Good that they banned him. Wishing someone that has a conversation with you but does not agree with you this kind of harm means you need to be excluded from the discourse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

"I'll bet you wouldn't say that joke about Muslims or Jews". The joke they actually have in mind:

[–] [email protected] 47 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Israelis are now using the same arguments as they do in Israel on American TV.

Not even Western media can protect them from themselves anymore.

The absolute state of Hasbara.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

western media will always only protect israel. this dude isn't going to face any consequences. "banned from CNN", yeah we'll see about that. bro probably just had to get back to englin airforce base to post more zionist propaganda on reddit, he wasn't ever asked to leave and certainly not told to never come back. mark my words, he will be back on CNN within the next two months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I am moreso hinting towards completely insane Israeli articles such as this not getting western coverage: https://lemmy.world/post/21368819

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

We Girdusky's last brain cell doesn't go on strike.

[–] [email protected] 243 points 21 hours ago (22 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

There is no outrage left

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 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."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 18 hours ago

Accused hamas guy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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?

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[–] [email protected] 234 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Girdusky appeared indignant on social media in the hours afterwards and said in a tweet "apparently you can't go on CNN if you make a joke."

"It was a prank, bro!"

The last refuge of the Trumpist shitheel.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Playing off hate as a joke, this is why it's okay to punch nazis

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

Yup, there's also this idea that certain people like to posit that Nazis never laugh or attempt to make jokes. It's not that you aren't joking, it's what your joke says about you.

I can understand that in a particular moment you're not calling for the literal death of your political opponents, yet still believe you'd be pretty okay with the literal death of your political opponents, and your "joke" may well help me be more confident in my conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

That's because it's true. Fascists fundamentally destroy humor. They aren't joking when they say this stuff. They just say they are.

It's so much more straightforward than people act like.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

Yup. It came off as ignorant hate, not a joke.

“I’m a supporter of the Palestinians, so I’m used to it.”

“Well, then I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

“Did you just say I should die?”

“Are you a Hamas?”

https://youtu.be/QwmFv4jnH-4

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's always a joke when these folks get pushback.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That’s called a Schrödingers douchebag. Something is both a joke and not a joke until one is called out.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 21 hours ago (18 children)

Basically telling someone who's Arab, "I hope you die" in the most racist way possible.

This hate is brought to you by Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 22 hours ago

GOP: "stop canceling me!!! everyone should be able to say whatever they want!!!!"

also GOP: "stop kneeling for the anthemmmmm!!!!"

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