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American politics are incomprehensible.

"they haven't killed that many people"

THEY'VE KILLED PEOPLE!

PEOPLE ARE DYING!

THHHOOUUUSSSAAANNNDDSSSS

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I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.

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"It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them.

On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever"

Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (book)

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i know the nyt regularly edits and rewrites headlines post-publication but it's kind of wild that the basically one (1) good op-ed i've seen them publish in ages that was getting really widely shared was renamed from "Why Must Palestinians Audition For Your Empathy?" to much more vague and defanged "The Palestine Double Standard." like. come on.

anyways.

(link to the archived page with the original headline)

The task of the Palestinian is to be palatable or to be condemned. The task of the Palestinian, we’ve seen in the past two weeks, is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it. To earn it.

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched Palestinian activists, lawyers, professors get baited and interrupted on air, if not silenced altogether. They are being made to sing for the supper of airtime and fair coverage. They are begging reporters to do the most basic tasks of their job. At the same time, Palestinians fleeing from bombs have been misidentified. Even when under attack, they must be costumed as another people to elicit humanity. Even in death, they cannot rest — Palestinians are being buried in mass graves or in old graves dug up to make room, and still there is not enough space.

If that weren’t enough, Palestinian slaughter is too often presented ahistorically, untethered to reality: It is not attributed to real steel and missiles, to occupation, to policy. To earn compassion for their dead, Palestinians must first prove their innocence. The real problem with condemnation is the quiet, sly tenor of the questions that accompany it: Palestinians are presumed violent — and deserving of violence — until proved otherwise. Their deaths are presumed defensible until proved otherwise. What is the word of a Palestinian against a machinery that investigates itself, that absolves itself of accused crimes? What is it against a government whose representatives have referred to Palestinians as “human animals” and “wild beasts”? When a well-suited man can say brazenly and unflinchingly that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people?

It is, of course, a remarkably effective strategy. A slaughter isn’t a slaughter if those being slaughtered are at fault, if they’ve been quietly and effectively dehumanized — in the media, through policy — for years. If nobody is a civilian, nobody can be a victim.

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Take it from a writer: There is nothing like the tedium of trying to come up with analogies. There is something humiliating in trying to earn solidarity. I keep seeing infographics desperately trying to appeal to American audiences. Imagine most of the population of Manhattan being told to evacuate in 24 hours. Imagine the president of [ ] going on NBC and saying all [ ] people are [ ].Look! Here’s a strip on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. That’s Gaza. It is about the same size as Philadelphia. Or multiply the entire population of Las Vegas by three.

This is demoralizing work, to have to speak constantly in the vernacular of tragedies and atrocities, to say: Look, look. Remember?That other suffering that was eventually deemed unacceptable? Let me hold it up to this one. Let me show you proportion. Let me earn your outrage. Absent that, let me earn your memory. Please.

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Here’s another thing I know as a writer and psychologist: It matters where you start a narrative. In addiction work, you call this playing the tape. Diasporically or not, being Palestinian is the quintessential disrupter: It messes with a curated, modified tape. We exist, and our existence presents an existential affront. As long as we exist, we challenge several falsehoods, not the least of which is that, for some, we never existed at all. That decades ago, a country was born in the delicious, glittering expanse of nothingness — a birthright, something due. Our very existence challenges a formidable, militarized narrative.

But the days of the Palestine exception are numbered. Palestine is increasingly becoming the litmus test for true liberatory practice.

In the meantime, Palestinians continue to be cast paradoxically — both terror and invisible, both people who never existed and people who cannot return.

Imagine being such a pest, such an obstacle. Or: Imagine being so powerful.

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this is genocide.

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Jesus Christ....

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Since October 7th, nearly 3,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, with thousands more injured and displaced.

The casualty count is rising by the hour as 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza continue to endure aerial bombardment under a military siege with no access to water, food, electricity, or medical supplies.

A humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented proportions is unfolding, and further escalation would endanger the lives of millions of Palestinians and Israelis alike.

10+ members of Congress have introduced a new resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and a safe pathway for humanitarian aid assistance to Gaza— and we need more to sign on.

Send an email to your member of Congress now to urge them to back this resolution, and stop further escalation from costing the lives of more families.

-qbv

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- While the media calls it the resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian invasion, on the other hand, the resistance of the Palestinian people to the Israeli occupation is called terrorism.

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Here is some fun facts about hamas and Israel that y'all should know about:

1. The hamas as they are now only exist thanks to Israel

Much like the Taliban and ISIS recieved support from the USA in their early stages, Israel was the one funding the Hamas before Iran.

2. Netanyahu supports Hamas as they give him an excuse to continue not acknowledging Palestine as legitimate state.

Not only can Israel continue doing that,it can also use Hamas as excuse to continue their bombardment of Gaza.

3. Netanyahu was warned by Egypt that something big was going to happen in Gaza 10 days prior to Hamas attack but he disregarded the warnings

Despite being warned about something grave happening soon, he was focused on the West Back. Hell the troops from the South were withdrawn.

So this man, who admitted that his government is using Hamas to justify violence against Palestinians, did absolutely nothing to evacuate or send futher protection to his own citizens in the settlements closest to Gaza despite being explicitly warned that hamas will do something 'big'

I can not even begin to explain the evil behind his actions so I won't.

Instead I'll say the following: The Hamas and all other terrorists in Gaza could dissappear of the face of the earth tomorrow and Palestinian civilians would continue to suffer. Israel has proven time and time again that they do not care about Palestinian lives. The hamas aren't even responsible for the West Bank and the Palestinians there are getting chased out of their own houses and land to this day.

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I cannot BELIEVE when Christians are against asylum seekers. You don't even need to know what's happening in Palestine to KNOW that people are DYING and you won't give them refuge?????? This is not what god taught me. I hope people will see the light to accept their brothers sisters and siblings with open arms