Seeing people using "jungle" for White supremacist colonial war crimes as if that word in that context hasn't been a White supremacist colonial excuse for those war crimes like forever.

IMNSHO and experience: unlearning our deeply ingrained White supremacist colonial thinking is a very worthwhile effort, especially for people who are anti-racist and anti-fascist.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/26/josep-borrells-jungle-trope-was-no-slip-of-the-tongue/

#racism #fascism #AntiFascism #AntiRacism #Colonialism #WordsShapeReality #LexicalWarfare

One side calls them martyrs, the other calls them heroes. For them, they are infidels who must be eradicated or terrorists who have been stopped. They are carrying out just punishment or divine retribution. And in one moment concerted action turns into a war without end.

Words seem manifold and simple. But violence is always violence. And it will always only produce violence. No matter in what guise it comes to us.

#wordsshapereality #cogitationesnocturnae