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Misplaced Outrage (Leiter)

Jim Lindgren (Law, Northwestern) here protests lack of attention being paid in the US media to the fact that Israel is killing large numbers of civilians in Lebanon, one-third of them children.

Whoops, sorry, I misread that:  his moral outrage is reserved for the fact that US media won’t give sufficient attention to the fact that in at least one case a survivor of an Israeli airstrike went out of his way to make sure the media carried pictures of the children killed.  Shocking, just shocking.

Comments are open on Professor Lindgren’s thread.  Perhaps someone will point out what we might gently call the "moral peculiarity" of his posture.

UPDATE:  I now see one commenter has already made the relevant point…and now another, even sharper.

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