Great read, brother! We are indeed lost afloat in a sea of arbitrariness. We’ve nuanced ourselves into an absolute imperial ignorance. After the shock of the images of what actually took place that Saturday wore off some, this was the most shocking reality. It was clear that we have lost our moorings, it was also shocking to see little to no sense of justice or law and order in our own country as well. As I watched pro Palestine rally’s celebrating the attacks, I wondered to myself “how would Americans have reacted to pro afghan/pro Al Qaeda parades in the streets of NYC the day after 9/11?” In a just society those people would be thrown in jail. Open support for terrorism is not free speech. Just like we would rightfully arrest and jail white supremacists for parading celebrating the lynching on black Americans. It’s sick. It’s jarring to see this complete inability to see that the targeting of civilians, mothers and babies, was a FEATURE of Hamas’s attack, not a bug. As seen with Cornell West, the idea of INTENT behind the attack seems completely irrelevant to him. It is another example of how our culture conflates “equality” with “sameness”. It’s such low value thinking; dead babies here and dead babies there, since babies are EQUAL, the outrage must be the SAME. But what is lost there is the intent of the attacker. For Hamas, we now have their documents that instructed them to take as many lives as possible regardless of their civilian or insurgent status. When Israel bombs back, children do die, but it’s an UNINTENTIONAL result of the attack, Israel has an especially difficult task considering these terrorist honeycomb themselves into hospitals, churches, apartment buildings, they use their women and children as human shields so that when Israel bombs and civilians die, it makes Hamas look victimized to the world. It’s so sick. And people seem unable to see through it. Because “dead babies everywhere is bad” is a lot easier to think.
Great read, brother! We are indeed lost afloat in a sea of arbitrariness. We’ve nuanced ourselves into an absolute imperial ignorance. After the shock of the images of what actually took place that Saturday wore off some, this was the most shocking reality. It was clear that we have lost our moorings, it was also shocking to see little to no sense of justice or law and order in our own country as well. As I watched pro Palestine rally’s celebrating the attacks, I wondered to myself “how would Americans have reacted to pro afghan/pro Al Qaeda parades in the streets of NYC the day after 9/11?” In a just society those people would be thrown in jail. Open support for terrorism is not free speech. Just like we would rightfully arrest and jail white supremacists for parading celebrating the lynching on black Americans. It’s sick. It’s jarring to see this complete inability to see that the targeting of civilians, mothers and babies, was a FEATURE of Hamas’s attack, not a bug. As seen with Cornell West, the idea of INTENT behind the attack seems completely irrelevant to him. It is another example of how our culture conflates “equality” with “sameness”. It’s such low value thinking; dead babies here and dead babies there, since babies are EQUAL, the outrage must be the SAME. But what is lost there is the intent of the attacker. For Hamas, we now have their documents that instructed them to take as many lives as possible regardless of their civilian or insurgent status. When Israel bombs back, children do die, but it’s an UNINTENTIONAL result of the attack, Israel has an especially difficult task considering these terrorist honeycomb themselves into hospitals, churches, apartment buildings, they use their women and children as human shields so that when Israel bombs and civilians die, it makes Hamas look victimized to the world. It’s so sick. And people seem unable to see through it. Because “dead babies everywhere is bad” is a lot easier to think.