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'Our minders mocked us for “feeling sorry for them.”'
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"n 2016, I had the chance to ask Mr. Assad directly about prisoners, especially those not accused of any violence. He repeated that anyone in prison had committed a crime, that there was a justice system at work. I asked about specific prisoners who had simply disappeared after being taken by security forces, like Adel Barazi, the brother of an old friend of mine, whose relatives had been asking the authorities about him for four years. Mr. Assad became testy, suggesting that they were lying or that they should simply keep asking — although detainees’ family members have sometimes been arrested just for that."
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Really? Mr. Assad said that everyone deserved what he or she was getting? How strange. Why would he say that if it weren't true? Doesn't everyone always get what he or she deserves, particularly when powerful people are making the decisions? Isn't that what the world is like? Bad things never happen to good people, only to people who deserve them. Isn't that what the conglomerate has been saying about me every day since 2010? I deserve it. I'm asking for it. I have it coming.
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"I had gained new skills in reporting on survivors of trauma from a fellowship at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma on how to interview sensitively without sacrificing rigor."
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Congratulations for having journalistic integrity. Did you get the idea for that from a scrap of parchment that escaped the conglomerate's jeering, self-righteous, prurient conflagration of every fundamental value of civilization?
Unfortunately, I have to tell you that I read the entire front page of the New York Times website for years, and that newspaper has not made ousting Mr. Assad from power a priority. It should have; if the New York Times and other media sources had prioritized the ousting of dictators for all of the years since 2010, the world would not be the FUCKING TOTALITARIAN DISASTER that it is now.
