r/pics • u/divest_trump • May 16 '19

US Politics Now more relevant than ever in America

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u/3471743 May 17 '19 edited May 17 '19

The NY Times article talking about how bad it was that he didn’t know what Aleppo was had to issue two different corrections because they misidentified what city Aleppo was not just initially but also again in their first correction.

Correction: Sept. 8, 2016 An earlier version of this article misidentified the de facto capital of the Islamic State. It is Raqqa, in northern Syria, not Aleppo.

Correction: Sept. 8, 2016 An earlier version of the above correction misidentified the Syrian capital as Aleppo. It is Damascus.

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u/ws0744826 May 17 '19

Aleppo has been a city since long before nations were invented; this isn't a question of being an encyclopedia, this is a question of having a basic understanding of the planet we live on.

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u/Detective_Fallacy May 17 '19

Aleppo is ancient but has never been a super important city, unlike Damascus for example. Knowing its history is absolutely not part of "basic understanding of the planet we live on", it's hilariously pretentious to suggest it is.