((I can't follow a supporter of state sponsors of terrorism that Palestine is, so I must unfollow you, sorry))
And I don’t want any followers who are cool with genocide bye kill yourself on the way out
“people wouldn’t have said the liberation movements in south africa or in vietnam were bad/terrorists/evil” they did though, they were all called those things. the west was against these liberation movements too and so they were heavily propagandized against. colonists have the same game every time. dehumanize, destroy, dominate, and deny/deflect when the truth is clear for the people of the world to see
we know colonized people can fight back and win. we’ve seen south africa, algeria, vietnam, china, and so many other countries stand up against their colonial rulers and come out the other side victorious, despite the propaganda against them and their liberation movements. it’s unnecessary to resort to ahistorical statements. we know that colonized nations can and will be successful in their fight for freedom. palestine is not different in this, and palestinians will be triumphant sooner or later
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
ALTthis is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all
Made a funny little Halloween-themed game last year for a college assignment. It's called Ghost Catchers, you play as a cat that has to catch all the ghosts haunting the school.
You can download it here:
dont laugh at her :(
my coworkers, all of whom are white Christian women, said today that they think ANYONE of Palestinian descent should be deported to Gaza and then have bombs dropped on them.
They don’t know I’m Palestinian. I’m fucking terrified. We don’t have HR. I can’t lose my job. It’s crazy to me that they can spout genocidal bullshit but if I so much as mention my ethnicity they may turn on me and hate me.
I’m a patient care coordinator at a pulmonary practice. All I want to do is make sure my patients get the care they need and deserve. I’m the only care coordinator in my office. I’m great at my job. But it was so hard to focus today knowing that if my coworkers knew about one of the biggest aspects of my identity - one of the things about myself about which I am the most proud - they would stop seeing me as a person.
Fuck off with the bothsidesism. With the whataboutism. This is what the mass of propaganda and lies and anti-Arabism being spread in the media do. And I’m terrified.
This is something you'd see on a fake video game cover in like Drake & Josh. Video Games dot Com
This is I assume, analogous to what it felt like to live through 9/11
Watching everyone around me go hysterical with jingoistic bloodlust and the international order I'm notionally in favor of, perpetrating something deeply evil that I'm punched in the face by the fact that there is no such thing as a morally just foreign policy.
It's not like I wasn't aware United States foreign policy was evil, but this is the first time I've lived through that evil.
Having lived through both; yes, this is absolutely a valid comparison.
There's a lot of overlap: the subtle undertones of eschatology and the mythic clash-of-gods dimensions sneaking into the political analysis, the ways that people become almost physically incapable of distinguishing between the citizen and the state as their rage overwhelms their philosophical commitments, the grasping discursive need to find a protagonist somewhere in all of this. The total lack of hope, the knowledge that this all just has to continue for decades until we all run out of rocks to throw.
