Vocabulary and ready -made sentences slip in so easily (see AI )in our spoken and written language, but they carry meaning which needs to be scrunitized and broken down.
I don't mean to be inappropriately hopeful, but I just moments ago had an off-topic thought that may be meaningful.
Had AI come during ANY other Repug administration (Reagan, Poppa Bush, Baby Bush, Trump1), we'd have had no options for defeating GOP greed, and the end would be just as certain and final as the climate crisis now appears to be, but very likely even faster.
Perhaps ONLY during Trump2 could humans be adequately united against this gravely potential threat. Any other Repug would have united enough people in the purpose of gaining wealth, and nothing else. (As we see with the climate crisis every day.)
But now, and perhaps ONLY NOW, are we united adequately to save humanity. We may fail, but I can't see how we'll EVER be as united against our mutual destruction as humanity is right now.
The subject of Palestine will be discussed for many veto come, the uplift will die out but the significance of the Genocide in Gaza will Blane Israelis in many history books for a very long time.
The sentence that caused me to cancel my subscription to The NY Times (after decades of being a loyal reader) referred to Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces as “minors under the age of 18”, while Israeli children were referred to as children in the same passage. This was the last straw for me after becoming increasingly frustrated with the biased covered of Palestinians.
Rad is right that Palestinian suffering should not be sanitized. But she distorts her own, that Palestinians are entirely the victim, not as real actors who helped shape their own history. From rejecting Peel in 1937 and partition in 1947 and the past 80 years, Palestinian leaders repeatedly chose rejection and violence over less-than-perfect opportunities for building their own state. That does not absolve Israel of any wrongdoing. But, Rad effectively ignores Palestinian's historical agency, which has significantly contributed to their own plight.
If Rad wants the media to restore Palestinian agency in its reporting, she should support restoring Palestinian agency in history as well. You cannot demand accountability from one side while treating the other primarily as acted upon. Her argument would be far more persuasive if she offered a complete historical account rather than the maximalist, absolutist one she presents here.
Well done!
Free Palestine
Vocabulary and ready -made sentences slip in so easily (see AI )in our spoken and written language, but they carry meaning which needs to be scrunitized and broken down.
Thank you, so important!
Fuck Israel. Fuck the US. Fuck Zionists. Free Palestine!
I don't mean to be inappropriately hopeful, but I just moments ago had an off-topic thought that may be meaningful.
Had AI come during ANY other Repug administration (Reagan, Poppa Bush, Baby Bush, Trump1), we'd have had no options for defeating GOP greed, and the end would be just as certain and final as the climate crisis now appears to be, but very likely even faster.
Perhaps ONLY during Trump2 could humans be adequately united against this gravely potential threat. Any other Repug would have united enough people in the purpose of gaining wealth, and nothing else. (As we see with the climate crisis every day.)
But now, and perhaps ONLY NOW, are we united adequately to save humanity. We may fail, but I can't see how we'll EVER be as united against our mutual destruction as humanity is right now.
The subject of Palestine will be discussed for many veto come, the uplift will die out but the significance of the Genocide in Gaza will Blane Israelis in many history books for a very long time.
exposing the real effect of language on perception is vitally important work. thank you!
The sentence that caused me to cancel my subscription to The NY Times (after decades of being a loyal reader) referred to Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces as “minors under the age of 18”, while Israeli children were referred to as children in the same passage. This was the last straw for me after becoming increasingly frustrated with the biased covered of Palestinians.
Rad is right that Palestinian suffering should not be sanitized. But she distorts her own, that Palestinians are entirely the victim, not as real actors who helped shape their own history. From rejecting Peel in 1937 and partition in 1947 and the past 80 years, Palestinian leaders repeatedly chose rejection and violence over less-than-perfect opportunities for building their own state. That does not absolve Israel of any wrongdoing. But, Rad effectively ignores Palestinian's historical agency, which has significantly contributed to their own plight.
If Rad wants the media to restore Palestinian agency in its reporting, she should support restoring Palestinian agency in history as well. You cannot demand accountability from one side while treating the other primarily as acted upon. Her argument would be far more persuasive if she offered a complete historical account rather than the maximalist, absolutist one she presents here.