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2025-01-29 21:51:41 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4DD34BCB247FAD448DF5A02BE9759A1FCABDD18DE428EC0BE4BA3944715E3DAC
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Original Note:
Palestinians are not hostages. A hostage is “someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants”. There is no enemy or demand being made. Linguistic appropriation is a tool to delegitimise actual hostages. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hostage
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