The discourse around #Kirk is increasingly becoming an inversion of J. Butler's concept of #grievability. But instead of describing which group gets denied the mourning of society the opposite happens:
Now, society gets prescribed whom it absolutely has to mourn under duress.
We have a word for this: perversion.
"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."
– Corine Pelluchon
#ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes
"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement
"More veterans die by suicide every two days than were killed in action in 2019."
Dean Spade: "Where there are U.S. military bases, there is intense sexual and gender-based violence. This includes sexual violence towards women living near military bases, towards sex workers of all genders, towards women inside the U.S. military, and harassment and sexual violence towards people perceived as weak or as gay or as trans. This is just a normal part of what U.S. militarism is. It's inseparable from the culture. Rape as a tactic of U.S. militarism is as old as U.S. militarism itself, going all the way back to the systemic rape of Indigenous people to colonize and settle North America."
"Trans inclusion in the military, like marriage equality, does nothing to redistribute wealth, stop police violence, housing and health care crises plaguing queer and trans communities."
“When it comes to trans advocacy, we want to ask what reforms will save trans people’s lives. The answers are clear: access to housing, income, food, childcare, health care. Military inclusion advocacy does not make the list.”
"What is effective and pragmatic is whatever reduces contact with the police".
by Wren Sanders, 2021, https://www.them.us/story/case-against-lgbtq-military-inclusion-explained 🧵
#pinkWashing #veterans #military #performance #authority #advocacy #livesWorth #civilRights #grievable #grievability #precarity #precariousness #gay #LGBT #LGBTQ #trans #transGender #queer #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #abolitionism
Watch Rebecca L. Walker six minutes on risk assessment and "moral status": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQi2uNqwxk
#ethics #grievability #grievable #values #science #Parr #ChapelHill
Over 43,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Jenin and Tulkarem (Occupied Palestine Territories)
https://thecradle.co/articles/jenin-camp-100-percent-destroyed-after-two-month-israeli-siege @israel @palestine 🧵
#collectivePunishment #Jenin #refugees #militants #israelPalestine #Palestine #WestBank #terrorism #counterTerrorism #Zionism #israel #JewishSupremacy #revenge #retribution #warOnPalestine #OPT #grievability #DefundIsrael #IDF #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing
Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"
Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶
#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking
"The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."
"The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."
Maya Rosen: https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of-october-7th-tourism
#liberals #victimhood #tourism #darkTourism #separatism #communautarism #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #fragility #warOnGaza #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael
First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
—Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.
#CulturalStudies #JudithButler #fragility #respectability #NineEleven #post911Wars #Oct7 #Oct7War #postOct7War #FirstWorldism #domination #boundaries #grievability #imperialism #geoPolitics #victimhood #resources #sociology #protest #protests #coloniality #stateRacism #indignation #entitlement #whiteness #islamophobia #moralPanic #psychology #masculinity #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #terrorism
"This is a confession. I love daytime TV. I smoke, even though I officially gave up years ago. I’m often late, and usually lie about why. And sometimes I feel good when others feel bad.
"The Japanese have a saying: “The misfortunes of others taste like honey.” […] In Hebrew enjoying other people’s catastrophes is 'simcha la‑ed'."
Excerpts from the #book #Schadenfreude by Tiffany Watt Smith: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606171225/https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/ @psychology @bookstodon
#pity #failures #empathy #envy #emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #grievability #mentalHealth #sadism #bondage #failures #joy #psychology #TiffanyWattSmith #bookStodon #wickedness
Thomas Renkert🦞
Estelle Platini
Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱
Eric Maugendre on collectives
