I know a lot of people feel like politicians can fight Trump and still support a genocide. I don't think it's possible, even if it weren't unconscionable.
@evan there's a part of me that wants to reject caring about Gaza until there's some real attention paid to the hell on earth that is Sudan, which is ten times the scale, but the people being tortured and killed are black. So no one cares. I know it's possible to walk and chew gum, care about both. But the white supremacy of it all... The fact the West has debates about Palestine, I promise people wouldn't care so much if they weren't basically white.
@quinn you should tell that part of you to stop being a genocide hipster. You've internalized whataboutist propaganda. Shake it off.
Genocide is a crime against humanity even if the people being killed aren't black enough.
Palestine is colonially occupied land.
Colonialism does not always break down on white-black lines.
Whiteness is a social construct and it is contextual.
People like me and my family are considered disposable because we are Orientalized and othered.
@quinn there are some really good books on Palestine that might be helpful.
The Hundred Year War on Palestine is very good.
The World After Gaza is also good.
My cousin wrote a book about her experience and about our family. It's called Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, Michaela Sahhar.
@evan have you spent some time looking into what's going on in Sudan?
@quinn no, as a Palestinian, I need to keep my focus on the genocide at hand.
@evan it's horrific, and it really goes back to the Janjaweed and the genocides going back to the late 80s. Whole towns have have vanished, replaced be giant piles of bodies. In some places every woman has been raped, even children. The RSF policy is to wipe out the Sudanese with rape, so all of the next generation will be the children of Janjaweed forces. Wiping people off the face of the Earth with total rape. UAE is funding them to get cheap gold from wildcat mining.
No one cares.