helpmeskeletor

helpmeskeletor, 6 days ago to random

All these Australian universities banning protests boldly citing ‘safety’ of staff and students like no one’s ever looked up their histories of wage theft, workplace bullying, dangerous overworking of staff and endemic inaction on sexual assault.

helpmeskeletor, 9 days ago to random

I dunno if you’re a university and you’re brutalising students rather than divesting from genocide it feels like your business isn’t educating people it’s investing in genocide.

helpmeskeletor, 13 days ago to random

Keep in mind western nations aren’t having a sudden change of heart on genocide out of the goodness of their own heart.

They’re being forced to shift the narrative because of protest - but now they’re trying to craft it so they can blamelessly transition to wealth extraction.

helpmeskeletor, 1 month ago to random

You should be highly suspicious of media that screamed about beheaded babies on the thinnest evidence but quietly ignores verifiable mass graves of handcuffed Palestinians.

helpmeskeletor, 1 month ago to random

Being neutral on starvation means people get starved. Being neutral on genocide means people get exterminated.

This is so you know what academics and journalists who are framing their neutrality as the high road are doing.

helpmeskeletor, 2 months ago to random

Turns out you don’t fight bigots with reason you need to fight them like mythological monsters with symbols drawn on the ground.

helpmeskeletor, 5 months ago to random

One thing about dehumanisation is that it can be done by comparison - oppressor’s humanity is constantly affirmed when it isn’t in question.

Oppressed people’s humanity is treated like it has to be earned.

helpmeskeletor, 5 months ago to random

Propaganda doesn’t need to be consistent or proveable but it does heavily rely on being lent credibility by media that refuses to report critically.

And sometimes the goal isn’t to persuade it’s sufficient to cloud discussion with sheer volume and tire it’s detractors.

helpmeskeletor, 5 months ago to random

There are no non-violent Nazi marches.

Nazis being allowed to march in the street is inherently violent.

State assent for their ‘freedom’ to promote genocide is violence.

helpmeskeletor, 5 months ago to random

If all these 'respect the dead' fuckers actually respected the dead then Kissinger wouldn't have been allowed to die peacefully in his home.

helpmeskeletor, 6 months ago to random

I just hope that people are seeing how propaganda doesn't have to stand up to scrutiny or be logical and consistent it simply needs to be omnipresent and constantly reinforced.

helpmeskeletor, 6 months ago to random

Maybe the political class you’re pleading with to save children has long since considered the death of children an acceptable means of holding onto and seizing more power.

helpmeskeletor, 7 months ago to random

Turns out a bunch of people who claimed they'd never let another genocide happen in their lifetime found themselves a soothing loophole which is 'actually that's not genocide'.

helpmeskeletor, 7 months ago to random

Settler colonialism isn’t just a single historical theft - it’s an ongoing process maintained through violence.

The reason colonisers are so vehement in treating it as something that happened in the past is to distract you from that ongoing violence and its end point - genocide

helpmeskeletor, 7 months ago to random

'I condemn all violence' is being used to flatten out all violence so you might equate an act of genocide with any violence used to resist it.

helpmeskeletor, 7 months ago to random

Lecturing oppressed people about non-violence but doing nothing about the violence of their oppression tells me this isn't an objection to violence for you.