But within cultural loci? A shared common experience of media and cultural touchstones - because that was the deepest 'genre data' they had access to. This loss of shared media culture is another reflection of capitalism and surveillance culture, creeping as technology allowed.
With the advent of widespread surveillance and digital monitoring, large media conglomerates can now market to hyperspecific markets. There have of course always been different culteral centers and I'm not suggesting that there has ever been a homogenous culture in this country.
Israel bombed a water truck while Palestinian families were trying to fill up water.
The video of the massacre shows a woman grieving over the shredded body of her husband.
Six feet away there are men and children scattered over the ground, some alive but mostly dead.
There are literal body parts stuck to the water truck, with random limbs being pieced together to form full humans.
I know most Americans don’t care about Palestine.
But maybe you should care about America.
Because the reason you can’t afford healthcare, insurance, and food is because your tax dollars are being siphoned by Israel to fund this genocide.
Free college and healthcare for IDF soldiers. Student debt relief for ICE agents. Versions of living wage. The far-right never opposed these policies in theory — they just wanted them for their own fascist purposes.
Getting mainstream media to freeze the number at 50,000 when Palestinians have continued to be murdered daily in Gaza is unequivocally one of the biggest tragedies. The true scale of the genocide is so immense.
More than the virtual tears and condemnations, I’m paying attention to the so-called comrades and allies who are displaying such genuine shock about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
They don’t know this, but they’re revealing something dark - a subconscious bias in that they too believe the killing of a white American is more shocking than the 100s of thousands of bloodied maimed burning bodies of Black and brown people they have witnessed.
“Sure it’s sad and all, but I mean those Palestinians are always bleeding to death on my screen. This is a white guy. With a whole family and everything. This isn’t NORMAL!”
They are admitting they intended to fire a missile at a hospital to eliminate a camera. A missile. At a hospital. For a camera.
And this is their "defense"
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself."
https://t.co/OPi1kTfvLS
They are putting the survivors of the genocide into smaller and smaller spaces, with no food, clean water or medical care. But don’t compare it to concentration camps or you might hurt someone’s feelings.