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2025-01-29 21:15:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4FDBFC1B2A88E5E0FE803BD1228F8BBDA312AC62AFA13C318405699811C1F573
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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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