Thread from J.K. Steinberger:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1718528571126260105.html
Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see.
I am finding it hard to put into words. It is not just the knowledge of deliberate mass death and atrocities being committed: it is the realisation that our goverments are brazenly, proudly, supporting it.
Switzerland cancelled funding for human right NGOs last week ffs.
France banning demonstrations (Switzerland had previously as well). The UK & US proudly supporting, funding, arming Israel. People being threatened, fired, forced to resign for simply standing up for human rights. Media dehumanising Palestinians, across the spectrum.
Much more than before, this feels like the multiple walls of hegemony closing in: military and police force, propaganda, economic and cultural spheres all aligned, with little to no political opposition, except on the very margins.
And the lesson here is clear for all: if you are undesirable by any force within this hegemony, you will be brutally erased from the face of the earth, swiftly, without a murmur of protest or a hint of recourse.
Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century.
Here are some rules of this new hegemonic world order:
1. If you are on the wrong side of a border you want to cross, you & all yours will be shot and massacred.
2. If you & all yours are on a piece of land that someone else wants, your cities & villages will be destroyed, you and yours will be killed, imprisoned, displaced.
3. If you dare protest and criticize the hegemon, you will lose everything: work, reputation, protection.
4. At every turn, you will be forced to chose sides: stay part of the hegemon
and align yourself with destruction, inequality, atrocities - or lose everything, become an unperson, with no power to protect those you love. At every stage, the circle of unpersons will become larger, and the pressure to conform to the hegemon more intense.
At first, when I read these words from the Colombian President @petrogustavo , I thought he was correct in some academic sense. Now I realise he was simply reading the situation completely correctly, and I was late in seeing it:
"The barbarity of consumption based on the death of others leads us to an unprecedented rise of fascism, and therefore, to the death of democracy and freedom. It's barbarism, or global 1933, as I call it. 1933 was the year Hitler came to power. What we see in Palestine will also be the suffering in the world of all the peoples of the south. The West defends its excessive consumption and its standard of living based on destroying the atmosphere and climate, and to defend it, knowing that it will cause the exodus from the south to the north, and not only of the Palestinian people; he is ready to respond with death. It does not want to transform its economic system except as far as the market goes to decarbonize it. And he knows that the effort will be minuscule to save life on the planet. His policy seeks to defend the consumption bubble of the rich on the planet and not save humanity, whose majority is disposable, like the children of Gaza. That's why the strong anti-immigration policies, the concentration camps for immigrants, the thousands of dead shipwrecks, that's why the Darién plug, that's why the economic blockades of rebel countries. The right in the West sees the solution to the climate crisis as a "final solution", the right once again dreams of Hitler and conquers the majority of the rich and Aryan peoples of the West and our Latin American oligarchies, who do not see another world where live than that of the "malls" of Florida or Madrid. The southern right uses violence, they break democracy, they feel, in the north, legitimized to do so. They believe they can kill and commit genocide, they just need the blessing of world power. We are going to barbarism if we do not change power. The life of humanity, and especially of the people of the south, depends on the way in which humanity chooses the path to overcome the climate crisis produced by the wealth of the north. Gaza is just the first experiment in considering us all disposable."
Do not mistake this for a war of religion, a regional skirmish, a particular historical blip. The powers that rule us are trying something out, and it spells out a very dangerous future for all of us - unless we successfully organise an international resistance.
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#EndGenocides
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