Take It Or Leave It

ennysdunya:

time-being:

penflicks:

They don’t want us to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide not because there’s not been an official ruling but because these things don’t get set in people’s minds via official ruling. Instead it is the oral history that sets an event into place in mass consciousness.

Us calling it what it is - a genocide - means they can’t wriggle out of it in years to come. They can’t continue to call it a conflict or a war if we cement it in public consciousness as a genocide.

So don’t tone down your language. Call it what it is. Make sure the history books know what happened and the genocides that took place in Palestine, Sudan, Congo.

Denial and control of language is a powerful tool for genocide supporters, especially for soft supporters.

Genocide relies on a lot of acquiescence and denial and complacency and pretending it’s not happening.

Genocide relies on a lot of what Sartre calls “bad faith” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism) ). This is different from the rhetoric of lying to another, but is about lying to oneself.

Calling these genocides what they are challenges that comfortable self-deception and challenges the load bearing lie that “I am a good person if I just collaborate with power”.

theconcealedweapon:

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