{"id":2252,"date":"2013-07-09T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2013-07-09T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:59:11","slug":"yaslin-bey-mos-def-force-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/07\/09\/yaslin-bey-mos-def-force-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaslin Bey (Mos Def) force fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting video. Turns out Guantanamo is force feeding some of the 100+ inmates currently undergoing a hunger strike. To experience that reality, Yaslin Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def) decided to allow himself to be force fed.<\/p>\n<p>Couple things come to mind as I watched this:<\/p>\n<p>1. Dude is a bit&#8230; er&#8230; tender. Evidently he&#8217;s never given birth, nor has he experienced colon cancer. Good grief, if I erupted into tears during every uncomfortable event during my latest cancer adventure, I would have been crying nonstop. A Youtube commenter agrees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His hysterical overreaction is faker than Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s on air persona. Froce feeding of this nature goes on all the time in hospitals. In fact, i was force fed just like this by the hospital and it was nothing to mentally breakdown over. It didn&#8217;t bother me at all. Mos Def is acting in this video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Note: I&#8217;m surprised people don&#8217;t use spellcheck more. Just an observation.)<\/p>\n<p>2. He&#8217;s a tad dramatic. Wiggling makes nearly every procedure worse. If the docs ask you to sit still, it&#8217;s in your best interest to do so. Otherwise it hurts more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i heard different experiences from relatives about this too. some found it horrible, others just slightly uncomfortable. I guess we have to keep in mind, that it must be completely different, if it&#8217;s done against someone&#8217;s will. then the person is not relaxing and with the fight they put up against the nurse it will most likely hurt far more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3. Some commenters sense a propaganda element to the vid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmmm. My wife had to have this done to save her life from a bowel obstruction and I was there with her the whole time. It was not this dramatic. While I am concerned about what is happening in our military prisons, this video is propaganda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Real or propaganda, the Guantanamo Bay situation is unacceptable and it&#8217;s bad enough without including cries of &#8220;this is propaganda.&#8221; Just presenting facts in this situation should curl enough toes to ignite a grassroots cry for change. But I may be wrong. The ethics of force feeding in this situation definitely need closer examination.<\/p>\n<p>I will acknowledge that this video is exceedingly powerful and thought provoking. (Oh, this vid may not be NSFW.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guant\u00e1namo Bay procedure\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6ACE-BBPRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is an interesting video. 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