Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 2:52:46 GMT -5
But atrocities were also committed against people who were not like me. or that name to name the atrocity I observe. Or at least I try not to. In the end however it is not simply a lack of empathy. Because empathy takes shape above all within a framework that allows identification to occur or for there to be a translation between the others experience and mine. And if the dominant framework deems some lives more worthy of mourning than others then it follows that one set of losses is more horrendous than another.
The question of whose lives deserve to be mourned is a fundamental part of the question of Russia Mobile Number List lives deserve to be valued. And here racism enters in a decisive way. If the Palestinians are animals as the Israeli Defense Minister repeats and if the Israelis today represent the Jewish people as Joe Biden repeats compacting the Jewish diaspora in Israel as the reactionaries demand then the only people on the scene worthy of being mourned the only ones who present themselves as suitable for mourning are the Israelis because the scene of war has now been set up between the Jewish people and the animals that seek to kill them. It is surely not the first time that a group of people seeking to free themselves from colonial shackles are represented as animals by the colonizer. Are Israelis animals when they kill This racist way of framing contemporary violence takes up the colonial opposition between the civilized and the animals who must be routed or destroyed to preserve civilization.
If we adopt this framework when declaring our moral opposition we are implicated in a form of racism that extends beyond the statement to the structure of daily life in Palestine. And for which without a doubt a radical repair is necessary. If we think that moral condemnation must be a clear and specific act without reference to any context or knowledge then we inevitably accept the terms in which this condemnation is carried out the scenario in which the alternatives are orchestrated. In the most recent context accepting these terms means returning to forms of colonial racism that are part of the structural problem that must be resolved of the persistent injustice that must be overcome.
The question of whose lives deserve to be mourned is a fundamental part of the question of Russia Mobile Number List lives deserve to be valued. And here racism enters in a decisive way. If the Palestinians are animals as the Israeli Defense Minister repeats and if the Israelis today represent the Jewish people as Joe Biden repeats compacting the Jewish diaspora in Israel as the reactionaries demand then the only people on the scene worthy of being mourned the only ones who present themselves as suitable for mourning are the Israelis because the scene of war has now been set up between the Jewish people and the animals that seek to kill them. It is surely not the first time that a group of people seeking to free themselves from colonial shackles are represented as animals by the colonizer. Are Israelis animals when they kill This racist way of framing contemporary violence takes up the colonial opposition between the civilized and the animals who must be routed or destroyed to preserve civilization.
If we adopt this framework when declaring our moral opposition we are implicated in a form of racism that extends beyond the statement to the structure of daily life in Palestine. And for which without a doubt a radical repair is necessary. If we think that moral condemnation must be a clear and specific act without reference to any context or knowledge then we inevitably accept the terms in which this condemnation is carried out the scenario in which the alternatives are orchestrated. In the most recent context accepting these terms means returning to forms of colonial racism that are part of the structural problem that must be resolved of the persistent injustice that must be overcome.