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Ukrainians fleeing with their pets. They don’t leave them behind. 🐶🐱🙏 I can’t imagine the pain and heartbreak picking up your pets and leaving your home. Heartbreaking for all. 💔

Praying for peace between Ukraine and Russia and all over the world.

It allows the racist to test the waters of their community, “how morally abhorrent can I be in public before it starts impacting people’s perception of me?” If no one calls them out on a racist joke they’ll keep making them and making them worse.

It allows the racist to find other racists. If someone laughs at or builds on a racist joke they have made a connection, and if no one does they can dismiss the racist comment as trivial. Without the plausible deniability of “it was just a joke”, racists would never be able to find each other in public, since no one would risk the social consequences of walking up to a non-racist and saying “Hey, don’t you think minorities are inferior?”

It allows the racists to build a community. Once they’ve found enough of each other, they can afford to be more brazen. What was once a casual workplace is now a hostile environment, and no amount of etiquette seminars will be able to undo the fact that everyone now knows who is a “closet” racist. An immigrant will never again feel comfortable at work knowing he sits between two coworkers joking about deportation. Racists find strength in numbers and this is how they get them.

It lets them pretend they are good people. The uninformed will back them up if they genuinely believe jokes are just jokes. “Yeah he makes some politically incorrect jokes sometimes, but I don’t think we should fire him for having a good time”.

Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships. 

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

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