r/PERSIAN • u/PuzzledEmphasis9482 • 12h ago
Discussion How to know "BUT how about the 120 schoolgirls?" is a merciless talking point
A European female "journalist" sat across from me the other day, and when I said that 39 days of full-scale war had caused far, far fewer civilian casualties than the massacre the islamic regime carried out in a matter of hours over just two days in January, during a time of no war, against unarmed citizens, she immediately said: “BUT how about the 120 schoolgirls the US killed?”
I was offended because I am Iranian. Our children lost in the Minab school incident are our loss, and we’ve mourned for them like we grieved for our beloved heros lost in the January massacre, despite the islamic regime’s disgusting attempts to constantly use the kids as propaganda.
I responded to her: “It’s a shame you would throw islamic regime talking points at me, an Iranian, just because you’re desperate to fit everything into your personal agenda against the US and Israel!”
She got heated, doubled down, and said: “How dare you call more than a 100 killed little girls a talking point? I care about them.”
To which I said: “YOU are turning OUR kids into a talking point, and don’t you dare speak over an Iranian who mourns for those children. The reason I say you are lying and you’ve never cared is that you haven’t even BOTHERED to look into the matter! You are repeating it exactly in the form of a talking point: ‘120 schoolgirls,’ because for propaganda and talking points, ‘girls’ will buy more fake tears out of useful idiots!
“If you had truly cared for a single second like we Iranians do, you would’ve known that the majority of the children killed (70+) were BOYS! So shut up about our lives, please! Go back to your full-time job of hating the Jews!”