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Coleman Cruz Hughes is a young media star, with a book, a podcast, and numerous apperances on other shows. I was leery when Glenn Loury started to promote CCH. While I did not doubt the potential of young CCH, I was waiting for him to produce something. It did not help that the first time I heard CCH, he was talking about how nobody could believe a young black man was conservative. Later, CCH appeared on episode #1781 of Joe Rogan Experience, and made a good impression. For a while, CCH was ok in my book.
Then October 7 happened. CCH is on Israel’s side. Now, CCH is certainly entitled to his opinion. As for me, I am HORRIFIED by what Israel is doing in Gaza. The Hamas/IDF attack on October 7 does not begin to justify the wholesale slaughter of human beings perpetrated by Israel.
Part of the problem is a massive propaganda campaign by Israel. CCH is a soldier in this information war. @coldxman “These is not an Israeli gov claim, Aaron. I knew you would dismiss it if it were. These are claims made by The NY Times—which, for all its flaws—tends not to invent photographs out of whole cloth. I’ll let you parse the difference between rape and driving nails into a woman’s groin. I see no meaningful difference in the context of 10/7. In other words: Whatever it would say about Hamas that they did the former, it would say the same about them that they did the latter. And you seem equally tempted to deny it in either case.”
“How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” is an exercise in atrocity porn. “Aaron” in the tweet above is Aaron Maté. @aaronjmate and @MaxBlumenthal are the co-hosts of the @TheGrayzoneNews, which has a highly credible debunking of the “nails into a woman’s groin” story. CCH feels that it is important to defend this story.
Legal Insurrection has some non-paywalled quotes from the NYT story. Some of it reads like a bad fiction. “The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back. She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast. “One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road.”
All this is going on during a battle. Hamas is trying to move in, take hostages, and get out as quickly as possible. NYT would have you believe that in a life or death battle, with IDF killing everything they see, Hamas militants are going to play bean bag with a breast.
This is not the first time that CCH has gone full blast for Israel. He writes for The Free Press, the outlet orchestrated by baking powder truther Bari Weiss. In one column, CCH makes the bold case that Israel is not an apartheid state. “A key difference between the nature of the Israeli-Arab conflict and South African apartheid is that Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank—checkpoints, movement restrictions, and so forth—are rooted in legitimate security concerns rather than racism.”
After reading a bit of the CCH tweetfight with @aaronjmate, I went to @coldxman. Normally, when you go to the home page of someone, you see a tab in the corner. This tab allows you to either follow, or unfollow. @coldxman … which @chamblee54 is following … has a purple tab, Subscribe. If you click on the tab, you see this: “Subscribe $7.00 a month Subscribe to Coleman Hughes Support your favorite people on X for bonus content and extra perks. … Welcome to Coleman Unfiltered Get bonus content when you sign up You will have access to ad-free episodes a week early and other exclusive bonus content. – @coldxman”
This is the first time I have seen the “Subscribe” option on Twitter. If I want to hear someone defend Israeli atrocity porn, I do not have to pay $7.00 a month. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress The spell check suggestion for coldxman is commando.