The Burden of Knowing: Navigating Life in a System Built on Inequality
Calling Out Western Hypocrisy While Living in the Aftermath
Talofa reader,
Get ready for a long rant, with a lot of swear words.
I started writing this piece after reading about the Israeli terrorist attack on Lebanon on Tuesday 17th September, that exploded hundreds of pagers across Lebanon and Syria, killing 12 and wounding thousands.
It had been 12 months already of the genocide of the Palestinian people by US-backed Israel, and now a blatant terrorist attack in two more Arab countries, and all I’m seeing is the sustained and morally bankrupt western media, continue it’s agenda of lies and propaganda, straight down the camera, for the world to see.
To watch the western world - politicians, media, pundits, public figures etc. - with a straight face, talk the most absolute bollocks I've ever heard in my entire life, has been quite a thing.
Watching Matt Miller, U.S. spokesperson, repeatedly claim that the U.S. had not found any evidence of Israel violating International Humanitarian Law, even after all videos we’ve seen, and evidence and testimony has stacked up on news sites, has been sickening.
There’s a ghoulishness to how these people lie remorselessly to cover for war crime after war crime, documented for the world to see.
If a real person lied to my face as much as western media and personalities have done in the last year or so, I'd have done what my younger brothers did when they caught up to a guy in high school who did the same shit-talking online.
But that kind of justice seems like it will never happen here.
I've always known underneath all of these rules, laws, norms and "democracy", it was a fraud or cover for (brace yourself) 'white supremacy' - not the lynching black folks kind, but the insidious "everyone play nice so we can maximise legal ways to exert supremacy without the mess, if we can help it" kind that maintains global inequities under the guise of civility and order.
But now, they can't keep it from getting messy.
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