Glissons-nous enfin dans ce week-end, en commençant par mettre en sourdine le groupe WhatsApp des parents d'élèves, qui vire à l'antichambre de l'enfer en ce moment 😅
Saul Steinberg, illustration pour le New Yorker, 1er juin 1957
"Le 12 décembre 2021, le président Macron a décidé unilatéralement contre la demande de report faite par le Sénat coutumier et le FLNKS d’organiser le 3ème référendum en raison de la crise du Covid. Cette décision remettait en cause l’engagement pris par le premier ministre Edouard Philippe que le 3ème référendum ne serait pas organisé avant la présidentielle de 2022."
The people of #Israel & #Palestine are crying out for help, but the #UN’s hands are tied in a knot of #vetoes. It’s had its hands tied and re-tied for more than 70 years. How many more children must die while the world watches on TV and does nothing to stop it?
We add our voice to those of global civil society calling for an immediate #ceasefire & #dialogue towards the establishment of a Holy Land where both Jews and Palestinians can live in #peace as a human community.
These demands are typical oppressor behavior to demand condemnation of the very group the oppressor set up to fall (in case of Hamas).
Dialogue gets shut down every time someone demands condemnation of x or y. It's a derailment meant to shutter all dialogue.
What do I mean by dialogue? Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed explains: "Dialogue is the encounter between people, mediated by the world, in order to name the world. Hence, dialogue cannot occur between those who want to name the world and those who do not wish this naming—between those who deny others the right to speak their word and those whose right to speak has been denied them. Those who have been denied their primordial right to speak their word must first reclaim this right and prevent the continuation of this dehumanizing aggression."
The dialogue between people, where we name our world, is many different types of people reflecting together about their needs, the present situation, and how to collaborate on ways to meet their needs. That 'naming of the world' term is meant to symbolize people sharing their stories and needs, and seeking understanding and solidarity with one another, where they work together in collaboration toward a better and more just present. (That can only happen if dialogue happens.)
Palestinians aren't being allowed dialogue. They aren't being allowed to name their own world, as it is being named for them by the intense and cruel restrictions set by Israel. This has been happening for decades, and many human rights experts have rightfully called Gaza an open air prison. Palestinians can't even take refugee in "safe zones" right now because those safe zones keep getting bombed by Israel.
The oppressor in this situation holds all the power. To treat their stories as somehow equal in magnitude is to deny the massive inequality between the two. Israel controls the food, electricity, water, fuel, healthcare needs, and freedom to move Palestinians need for basic survival. This is not in any way equal, and to treat it as such is to engage in a massive gaslighting of the situation. Even the citizens of Israel have recognized the massive inequality and deadly harm of this narrative and actions of their increasingly conservative government (86% oppose their government's actions).
Condemning acts of terror derails from the very real horror of an entire ethnic group being held in an open air prison, their sustenance taken away, and being punished for existing as they are. We need to have dialogue about this, and we need to find a way to stop the deaths. Focusing on condemnation first destroys dialogue and makes it harder to find solutions to stop the deaths of thousands.
Focus on saving lives and not on demanding specific words to prove these lives are worth saving. All lives are worth saving. All people have a right to life.
No one has the right to deny the humanity and right to exist of another human, and yet that is what Israel has done to Palestinians. This injustice has killed thousands of civilians. It needs to stop.
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." -- Robert Jones, Jr.
Justice is what love looks like in public, but justice can never be found in murdering other people, especially in this magnitude. Justice involves dialogue, and dialogue requires all parties be treated like human beings, where the oppressive inequality is dismantled, where their right to exist honored, where they have access to what they need to thrive.
#FatherAndSon deux chansons. On écoutait ces deux chansons. Est-ce que c‘est un peu la même ? Je ne réponds pas, mais j‘ai eu envie de les mettre côte à côte…
Absolutely, you have expressed the essence of Mastodon communication. A multitude of micro-conversations, each very specific and apparently minor, but honest and in the spirit of true dialogue. In combination, these conversations effect real change.
That is why the main mode of posting on Mastodon is the reply, not the big post.
It is not as much that people perceive the complex world through their own particular (and reductive) frames—an inevitability—but more that we don't take the time to engage each other productively about our differing understandings.
And we have limited opportunity with the customs and practices that make productive disagreement possible.
10 days ago I put down in writing my (low) expectations for Mastodon supporting QTs <https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110295026893193313>. With the recent growth of interest in #CalcKey, a platform that supports the feature, I'm already seeing my prediction come true, with high-profile accounts engaging in #UselessUseOfQT instead of plain old boosting or more in-depth out-of-band commentary. And that's still from a relatively small platform. When this his the larger Mastodon servers it'll be a shitshow.
Yes. #QTs are damaging to our inner posture when talking to others. Talking about the other, not to the other. #Thou becomes #It. #Dialogue becomes competition. I become the judge, not the partner.
On arriving here last November, I instantly felt the liberating power of Mastodon's discussion customs, especially the prohibition of QTs. I endlessly thought and posted about them. The recent announcement to introduce them saddens me; I absolutely share your fears.
Transformers - The Revenge Of Bruticus: dialogue recording (www.youtube.com)
Time codes:00:00 - Bruticus 03:08 - Kickback and Shrapnel 05:00 - Tracks05:45 - Walla (people screaming in terror) 06:40 - Inferno 07:07 - Shrapnel, Kickback...
Models of dialogue -Taylor & Francis Online (www.tandfonline.com)
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