But that was no reason to lay off. “Entire neighborhoods have been bombed to the ground with children missing under rubble,” Hazami Barmada, the encampment’s organizer, told me. “Why are those children forced to understand the brutal, barbaric realities of war, when his children should be sanitized from it?”
Terrorizing children is fucked. So is killing them. And so is perpetuating that kind of sick genocidal violence as a government official while ignoring one’s own citizens.
This idea that protest has to be polite and contained is …unhelpful. Those in power want protests that can be ignored.
All this awful shit being done by powerful people in the world all over… and the rest of us are totally powerless to do anything. I’m not surprised to see protesters taking more extreme measures.
When trying to stop genocide, what’s a step too far?
I’m fairly certain that the step exists, but I’m fairly certain that the step is pretty far from here.
If your going to be harassed for anything, actively supporting a genocide seems like a good reason. Sorry I won’t be clutching my pearls on this one.
Blinken’s 3-year-old and 4-year-old have absolutely no culpability when it comes to genocide.
Agreed.
Neither do the dead Palestinian kids.
Terrorizing children is fucked. So is killing them. And so is perpetuating that kind of sick genocidal violence as a government official while ignoring one’s own citizens.
This idea that protest has to be polite and contained is …unhelpful. Those in power want protests that can be ignored.
All this awful shit being done by powerful people in the world all over… and the rest of us are totally powerless to do anything. I’m not surprised to see protesters taking more extreme measures.
When trying to stop genocide, what’s a step too far?
I’m fairly certain that the step exists, but I’m fairly certain that the step is pretty far from here.
Attacking somebody’s toddlers is such a powerful move /SARCASM