Bilal Barakat 🍉

If you don't believe the anarchists, perhaps you'll believe the researchers.

❞ Most people understand “violence” as something that happens between two people or groups of people as a result of sudden or extreme behaviour. Yet often, the most extreme forms of violence occur as a result of mundane decisions made by governments or institutions over a long period of time.
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It can be through deliberately harming a group or, as highlighted in the Grenfell report, by ignoring or overlooking information that could prevent harm.
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Describing these institutions as having “failed” misrepresents the reality of why Grenfell happened. Deregulation, cost-cutting and outsourcing were not “failures” of government, but flagship policies of austerity that were carefully planned and coordinated. ❝

https://theconversation.com/grenfell-was-not-a-state-failure-it-was-institutional-violence-238245

Grenfell was not a state ‘failure’ – it was institutional violence

Deregulation, cost-cutting and outsourcing were not ‘failures’ of government, but flagship policies that were carefully planned and coordinated.

The Conversation
Sep 9, 2024 at 5:34pmWeb
Show threadViolet MadderSep 9, 2024

@bifouba

Social murder.

Show threadSamSep 9, 2024

@bifouba #COVID #LED

So too are pretending the pandemic is over and ignoring all data, ignoring long COVID, ignoring accumulative immune damage, and robbing years or decades of life expectancy, and the horrific impacts on children, the disabled, the immune compromised, and the elderly.

So too was the shift to eye destroying, cancer causing, health robbing blue based LED lights, and ignoring the hazards to everyone, while ignoring too how essential infrared light is for health.

Show threadIt Never Had To Be This WaySep 9, 2024
@bifouba The purpose of a system is what it does