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2025-01-30 12:50:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 9DE60B58EBCC75CC032FF934A12A25CB7FED4B80E9FAFB078AD09D6D6CBB1750
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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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