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talking to people about youth liberation brings out the most profoundly reactionary impulses in many and often exposes a deep and foundational rot in people's conceptions of agency and sexual violence
There's a really funny thing I see where USians will be outraged when the PRC says "What goes on in Xinjiang/Hong Kong/Taiwan is an internal affair that isn't for Westerners to comment on" and they'll say that it's a completely ridiculous thing to say, but when they imagine the world and decide which camps are "the good guys" and which are "the bad guys", the US' treatment if black and indigenous people never weigh into the assessment. You see people say that the PRC is more evil than the US but when pushed to demonstrate with evidence that what's going on in Xinjiang is anywhere near as bad as how the US currently treats black people they're empty-handed. They bleat about the Tyranny of the Soviet Union but when you ask if they'd rather live in the Soviet Union or be black in the Jim Crow south they act as if it isn't a fair thing to bring up? Why? Do you believe black and indigenous people are people are not? And if not, how could you possibly think any countries except perhaps Nazi Germany and the Zionist Enemy are any more morally bankrupt?
When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.
But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.
In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.
One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.
Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.