Media outlets like Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, Fox, that have disseminated incitement to genocide, dehumanizing narratives, justifications for war crimes & Israeli propaganda & disinformation must be held accountable. Incitement & complicity in #genocide are crimes.
--- Craig Mokhiber on x/twitter, Feb 3
#propaganda #media #dehumanization #WarCrimes #Gaza #genocide
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)
#quote #quotes #quotation #dehumanization #evil #sin #objectification #vice #fundamentals #immorality #othering #people #simplicity
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/46945/
To dehumanize others you must first dehumanize yourself. And the horrible thing about Israeli society is that is exactly what they do on an industrial scale [...]
--- Joti Brar, https://youtu.be/RYwVqZ92RVE?si=yqa7p_r5hYScBGPq&t=3244
https://youtu.be/3EtNFXL_ykg?si=lIJXvl3dunzHEEm0&t=172
(Note: The story of the ambulance really got to me, so tragic and unreal)
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/HATE-SPEECH_0311:e?r=8fGMofvxii2ZPGaB6Wo3Q1i5oeM9PKKJ
https://youtu.be/2YsjbI1Gszw?si=QtHfnHACQTP7HWQ3
#NickEstes #NativeAmerican #liberation #Palestine #settler-colonialism #reservations #apartheid #dehumanization
When faced with #conflict, human beings respond in various ways and often choose #solutions that avoid #violence. We are very good at #negotiating, #communicating, #cooperating, as well as, of course, submitting to those more #powerful than us. Violence in our societies is pervasive; it is experienced every day by victims of #crime, domestic and more. But the systemic way #armies and #militarized #police units plan and prepare for the use of overwhelming violence is specific and unique.
A key example of militarized #policing is the #suppression of #protest and #dissent. Social movements come into conflict with the #authorities via lobbying, #protests or direct actions. Authorities respond to these #conflicts in various ways, sometimes reaching for militarized options. This violence is planned, trained for, repeatedly rehearsed and often delivered in a calculated way that aims to disorientate, overwhelm or eliminate the perceived enemy or threat.
Through the lens of #militarism, conflict stops being something that drives #change and #transformation; it becomes a #threat to be neutralized and the individuals and groups driving conflict become enemies akin to a foreign invading #army. Violence of this nature relies on its perpetrators’ #obedience to orders, the #dehumanization of its victims, and a heightened perception of threat.
The experiences of the democracy movement in #HongKong serve as one particularly extreme example. While in Hong Kong these tactics have been deployed by an #authoritarian #government, we have seen similar examples of police violence leveled against #activists across the world — in Chile, France, Germany, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, South Korea and the US, to name but a few.
