Palestine has ignited our planetary consciousness once again, and it is the student movement that refuses to let genocide become our new normal. They know that the fight for Palestine is a fight for us all.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel I have an issue with this framing that I think is worth highlighting. Western centers of power and colonialist movements were founded upon genocide and have a long history of genocide. This isn't a "new normal"; this is business as usual that we are standing up against.
How many times did Americans stop a war before? That's the unusual thing, and it would be nice if you were able to see it. Now that a few people are doing something principled and decent in the US for the first time in many decades, do you believe it's the time for nitpicking about the framing? Or did I misread you and you're just creating unnecessary controversy for the sake of it? Let me know.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel because this user blocked me before I could reply, I'll post a screenshot and reply here: it's important to highlight the inaccuracy in the framing because too many people believe the copacetic, whitewashed version of Western history and repeat falsehoods like "this isn't who we are" when this is exactly who they are, and those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Ignoring the fact that the root causes of this genocide are systemic and structural is at best digging one's head in the sand and at worst complicity in a long string of genocides by the western hegemony.