Estelle Platini

Duh, students need a small class with a dedicated, well-trained, supportive, teacher.

'Policy analysts looked at 20 years’ worth of data collected for the annual Student Academic Experience Survey, currently run by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Advance HE, to establish key trends in a tumultuous period for higher education. The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.'

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/what-matters-most-20-years-of-the-student-experience/

#university #higherEd #higherEducation #education #learning #professors #teachers

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling?
For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle.
Read Sarah Blackwood: https://archive.is/lOrsl

#humanities #acceleration #convergence #commoditization #accelerate #criticalThinking #technocriticism #capitalism #technique #education #academicChatter #liberalArts #English

SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2026/mapping-military-ai-industry

#arms #armsTrade #weapons #militaryAI #military #AIindustry #Magnificent7 #technoCriticism #SIPRI

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—‘yes, that is the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’”
—John Steinbeck

#bonding #validation #conversation #storyTelling #stories #listening #narratives #influence #campaigning #psychology #Steinbeck #quotes

Nick Brumfield wrote a review of "The Night of the Hunter" movie. He analyzed it as an example of cinema set in Appalachia before the idea of Appalachia was resurrected and codified in the 1960s.
https://expatalachians.com/the-original-hillbilly-horror-movie-the-night-of-the-hunter

#misogyny #community #adultism #psychology #psychopaths #attachment #religion #christianism #beliefs #faith #hope #NightOfTheHunter #movie #RobertMitchum #Appalachians #serialKillers #crime #predators #Laughton #GreatMigration #GreatDepression #Appalachia #hillbilly #horrorMovie #history #AmericanHistory #whiteHistory

"Student placed his eye in the trajectory of a projectile. Lawyer hints his showing up might be responsible"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/usc-student-loses-eye-no-kings-protest.html

Here is an example of the method of Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt:

#responsibility #safety #NYT #professionalism #institutionsDeceive #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #doubt #FUD #press #reporting #journalism #protesting #protests #NoKings

Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans.

"In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."

https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/

#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban

"Silicon Valley leaders are no longer merely building tools for the battlefield; they are being formally integrated into its command structure"

"AI for War: Big Tech Empowering Israel’s Crimes and Occupation", by Marwa Fatafta for Al-Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/ai-for-war-big-tech-empowering-israels-crimes-and-occupation/ @palestine

#dehumanisation #squash #technoCriticism #StartUpNation #TechBros #innovation #efficiency #technoSolutionnism #productivity #strikes #DefundIsrael #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #MilInt #military #army #IDF #Unit8200 #Gaza #warOnGaza #israel #tech #technology #AI #data #Microsoft #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #militaryAI #Cloud #OpenAI #IDF #genocideSupport #entanglement #complicity #complicityInGenocide #AlShabaka

"Les dirigeants de la Silicon Valley ne se contentent plus de créer des outils destinés au champ de bataille ; ils sont désormais officiellement intégrés à sa structure de commandement."

"L’IA au service de la guerre : comment les géants de la technologie facilitent les crimes et l’occupation d’Israël", par Marwa Fatafta pour Al-Shabaka : https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2025/10/28/lia-au-service-de-la-guerre-comment-les-geants-de-la-technologie-facilitent-les-crimes-et-loccupation-disrael/

#déshumanisation #écrabouiller #technoCritique #guerreIA #renseignement #militaire #Défense #armée #Tsahal #IA #technoSolutionnisme #productivité #frappes #bombardement #armes #militaire #israel #israelGaza #complicité #guerresDIsrael #israelHamas #crimesDeGuerre #Unité8200

"Why did body odor start grossing us out?"
By Leah Worthington: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/body-odor-history-business

#respectability #discrimination #reputation #marketing #history #smell #perfume #hygiene #distinction #distate #disgust

The Guardian shows "the same patterns of systemic bias, deliberate distortion and deceptive underreporting" as other British mainstream media:
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/guardians-gaza-line-atrocious-rest-uk-press 🧶

#DumpTheGuardian #EuropeIsrael #proZionism #proSionism #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael #UK #Britain #England #London

The EU’s Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel’s military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon: https://www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science-grants-are-funding-israeli

@academicchatter @israel

#subsidies #grants #science #research #EU #Horizon #EUHorizon #EuropeIsrael #weapons #armsTrade #projects #complicity #culturalBoycott #universities #israel #BarIlan #RamatGan #TelAviv #HebrewUniversity #Technion #BenGurion #Weizmann #Haifa #Europe

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

"L'effondrement moral total de la société respectable sous le régime hitlérien peut nous enseigner que, dans de telles circonstances, celles et ceux qui chérissent les valeurs et s'en tiennent fermement aux normes et aux standards moraux ne sont pas fiables : nous savons désormais que les normes et les standards moraux peuvent changer du jour au lendemain, et qu'il ne restera alors que la seule habitude de s'en tenir fermement à quelque chose.
Beaucoup plus fiables seront les sceptiques et les dubitatifs, non pas parce que le scepticisme est une bonne chose ou que le doute est salutaire, mais parce qu'elles et ils ont examinent les choses et se forgent leur propre opinion."
Les meilleurs seront celles et ceux qui ne savent qu'une seule chose avec certitude : quoi qu'il arrive, tant que nous vivons, nous devons vivre avec nous-mêmes."

Hannah Arendt, 1964, https://archive.org/details/responsibilityju0000aren/page/44/mode/2up?q=%22total+moral+collapse%22&view=theater

#scepticisme #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #nazisme #Allemagne #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #conformité

"Ce qui distingue le projet théorique, politique et littéraire de Wittig et en fait aujourd’hui un incontournable pôle d’attraction intellectuelle. C’est assurément la radicalité de son antiessentialisme que Wittig applique à la croyance la plus crédible qui soit en raison de la force de sa naturalisation : l’idée que les hommes et les femmes seraient des « groupes naturels » et naturellement complémentaires.

"Pour Wittig, en revanche, les hommes et les femmes sont des groupes sociaux naturalisés, des classes antagonistes créées par des rapports de pouvoir, le sexe anatomique est une marque qui cristallise ces rapports sociaux (sans eux, il n’aurait aucune pertinence sociale), l’hétérosexualité est un régime politique qui opprime les femmes, les personnes nonhétérosexuelles et les personnes racisées, et pour cela il faut la détruire dans son double fondement, matériel et idéologique. Car pour Wittig le régime hétérosexuel repose, d’une part, sur un système de rapports sociaux d’infériorisation et d’aliénation des femmes, des personnes non hétérosexuelles et des personnes racisées, et, d’autre part, sur une structure de perception essentialiste – que Wittig appelle la « pensée straight » – dissimulant l’oppression derrière la notion de « différence », permettant ainsi à la domination de se reproduire si aisément."

Sara Garbagnoli expliquait en 2023 : https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-french.pdf

#clarté #radicalité #croyances #subjuguer #essentialisme #appropriation #sexisme #hétérosexisme #hétérosexualité #saphisme #hétéroNormativité #féminismes #histoire #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #antiracisme #littérature #homosexualité #MLF #féminisme #internationalisme #matérialisme #patriarcat #linguistique #universalisme #queer #antagonisme #utopie #histoireDesIdées #idéologies

Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶

#development #revolution #conformism #progress #personalism #State #nationState #anarchism #anarchy #technoCriticism #technique #bureaucracy #technocracy #industry #economy #capitalism #spectacle #property #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #goodLiving #city #rurality #historyOfIdeas #philosophy #politics #vote #elections #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #longThread #yarn

_Une responsabilité éthique_

"Selon Cécile Cée, dans le cas de l’inceste, dont la particularité est précisément d’opérer une décorrélation perverse entre les mots et les choses, « la situation ne dépend pas de ce qu’elle [la victime] a à en dire, mais de ce que la société devrait en dire » (p. 181). Dès lors que le geste de nomination ne relève pas d’une négociation interpersonnelle (dans quelle mesure puis-je appeler inceste ce que x ne désigne pas ainsi ?), mais d’une énonciation collective (« C’est à la société, aux tiers, à toi, de le faire », p. 182) seule susceptible de « remettre le monde à l’endroit » (p. 227), on sort du cas de conscience individuel pour passer dans l’ordre d’une responsabilité éthique d’ordre social et politique."

Une recension : https://lethica.unistra.fr/lethictionnaire/tous-les-articles/cecile-cee-ce-que-cecile-sait-journal-de-sortie-dinceste/

#Gainsbourg #JaneBirkin #énoncer #relations #communauté #attachement #éthologie #anthropologie #CélineCée #pédoCriminalité #maltraitance #famille #violenceFamiliale #violenceDomestique #père #parentalité #déni #inceste #cultureDeLInceste #VSS #patriarcat #santéPublique #santéMentale #violencesFamiliales #interconnaissance #tabou #loiDuSilence #emprise #invisibiliser #invisibilisation #compromission #implication #responsabilité #éthique #vendrediLecture #BD

_Ethical responsibility_

Incest is settled by a perverse disconnect between words and deeds.
According to Cécile Cée, ‘the situation does not depend on what the victim has to say about it, but on what society should say about it’ (p. 181). Once the act of naming is not:
* the result of interpersonal negotiation (to what extent may I call incest what the victim does not designate as such?),
* but rather a collective statement (‘It is up to society, to third parties, to you, to enunciate,’ p. 182), which alone can ‘put the world back the right way up’ (p. 227),
* then we move away from individual conscience and into the realm of social and political ethical responsibility.

@socialpsych @ethics 🧶

#community #relationships #ethology #anthropology #family #domesticViolence #parenthood #denial #incest #incestCulture #patriarchy #publicHealth #mentalHealth #acquaintance #taboo #attachment #invisibility #kinship #incest #ethics #responsiblity #involvement #CélineCée #book

Wilderness wildfires

"Beyond introducing foreign species to the landscape, the settler population sought to rid the land of any trace of what had existed before. Prior to the Nakba, the area of the Jerusalem Hills that last week’s fires tore through was heavily populated, with many villages spread across the landscape. Indeed, the expansive "Ayalon-Canada" forest, planted by the KKL in 1972 and now nearly entirely burnt to the ground, had already suffered two waves of devastation, albeit of another kind, in both 1948 and 1967.

"Beneath the remains of its trees may be found the ruins of four Palestinian villages: approximately 6,000 people once lived, farmed, and played there. With olive groves, fruit orchards, fields of grain, terraced farms and vegetable plots aplenty, the Jerusalem Hills were quite productive."

https://vashtimedia.com/land-tells-truth-jerusalem-wildfires/ @palestine @israel

#landManagement #landscape #Zionism #proZionism #JNF #KKL #Palestine #colonialism #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #wildfires #wilderness #pineTrees #Nakba

Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.

Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade

#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

Le réarmement est une opportunité pour le capital d'obtenir des réductions de la protection sociale et des services publics, au prix d'une baisse de la rentabilité.

Chatham House : « Les hommes politiques devront se préparer à récupérer de l'argent en réduisant les allocations de maladie, les pensions de retraite et les soins de santé. »

La ministre britannique des finances, Rachel Reeves n'a cessé de réduire les dépenses consacrées aux allocations familiales, aux allocations d'hiver pour les personnes âgées et aux prestations d'invalidité. Elle a annoncé que les attributions du nouveau Fonds national de richesse du gouvernement "travailliste" seraient modifiées afin de lui permettre d'investir dans "la défense" (en fait l'industrie de l'armement).

L'augmentation des dépenses militaires stimule la croissance mais peut nuire à la « santé » du processus d'accumulation capitaliste (en) https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/

#politique #transitionGrise #RearmEurope #RearmEuropePlan #réarmement #dette #argent #industrie #armes #Europe #UE #défaite #CommissionEuropéenne #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeUkraine #Ukraine #Politiqueétrangère #alliés #défense #déficit #violenceDEtat #RoyaumeUni #GrandeBretagne #Starmer #sécuritéSociale #servicesPublics #économie #accumulation #capital #capitalisme #richesse #innover #innovation #marxisme #économie #entreprises #finance #économieDeGuerre

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin in her book, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics 🧶

#beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology

(continued)

The director of the institution, Pierre Silviet-Carricart, has been charged of the case of sexual assault. François Bayrou asked the investigating judge for a meeting at his place. The discussion was around the risks for the Bayrous' son, then a student at the boarding school. François Bayrou's wife attended the director's funeral in 2000.

At Parliament, on 11th February 2025, François Bayrou was representing the government for the weekly question-and-answer session. When asked about #Bétharram, he stated before the National Assembly that he had "never been informed of any violence, and even less of sexual violence".

@anthropology @edutooters 🧶

#availability #family #adultDomination #adultism #criminality #criminalNetwork #schoolNetwork #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #silentiation #adults #publicHealth #torture #boardingSchool #adultism #beliefs #values #family #children #education #childhood #learning #catholic #catholics #religion #institutionsDeceive #France #Bayrou #schoolViolence

“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”

Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' #book, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

@bookstodon hat-tip @markvonwahlde

#liberalism #castism #raceMaking #hindouism #beliefs #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #islamophobia #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #preBritish #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #bookStodon #CarolineElkins

"BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes"
at The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles/bbc-staffers-reveal-editors-entire-job-to-whitewash-israeli-war-crimes

#EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #UK #Britain #BBC #BBCNews

L'État allemand a lié sa propre renaissance dans le "royaume des nations civilisées" au travers d'une relation de protection particulière de la figure du Juif, où les Israélien·nes (toujours juif/ves) sont une incarnation primordiale de la vie juive.

"Tant que la figure du Juif restera un vecteur d'articulation et d'expérimentation de l'identité allemande, l'accomplissement de la différence collective et de l'action politique juives sera relégué exclusivement relégué à l'État d'Israël. La figure du Palestinien, ainsi que la sujétion politique des Palestinien·nes et leurs revendications d'égalité, seront à leur tour considérées soit comme un désagrément à éviter, soit comme une menace à criminaliser, plutôt que comme un prisme décisif pour reconnaître les multiples niveaux de violence morale légitimée en Allemagne. "

Hannah Tzuberi et Nahed Samour en 2022 (en): https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-german-state-and-the-creation-of-un-desired-communities/

#tabou #fétichisme #sacré #Allemagne #culpabilité #philoSémitisme #confusion #antisémitisme #racisme #colonialité #prosionisme #imaginaires #rédemption #expiation #Réconciliation #nationalisme #patriotisme #unitaire #unitarisme #völkisch #volkisme #racialisation #communautarisme #valeurs #croyances

"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.

"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.

"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority

#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism

The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-german-state-and-the-creation-of-un-desired-communities/

#taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

« La légitimation de l’extrême droite est autant le fait d’autres partis que de l’espace médiatique »

Safia Dahani : https://theconversation.com/la-legitimation-de-lextreme-droite-est-autant-le-fait-dautres-partis-que-de-lespace-mediatique-232275

#dédiabolisation #voteRN #normalisation #blanchité #blantriarcat #blanctriarcat #patriotisme #nationalisme #préférenceNationale #sociologie #extrêmeDroite #LePen #médias #dissolution #censure #SafiaDahani

'It is overwhelming for people to see and recognize the #genocide not only because it is reminiscent of the same forms of genocide we witnessed in Bosnia and Kosovo but also because the same tactics of dehumanization and mass murder are deployed in the ostensibly “defense” of “civilization” from “terrorism.” The destruction of people, lives, land, and cultural and religious sites are working out in the same way they did in the 1990s and their justifications are anchored in Islamophobic, racist, and colonial articulations of mass murder in the name of Western liberalism.'

https://lefteast.org/yesterday-srebrenica-today-gaza/ via @Clapotis 🧶

#trauma #PTSD #israel #Gaza #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #beliefs #dehumanization #GazaWar #warOnGaza #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #GazaGenocide #Srebrenica #Bosnia #Yugoslavia #UN #history #UNHistory #liberals

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶

#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking

After youth movements:
“To not tell those stories out of shame only serves to cement the destiny and ideology of those educated within Zionist institutions"

https://vashtimedia.com/zionist-youth-movements/ @supremacy 🧶

#shame #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti

"As the foundation of modern political systems, the nature/culture divide had profound consequences for the production of a ‘science of man’, distinguishing between men and women, body and mind, civilised and savage, and arguably human and semi-human.
[…]
"Since the first steps of Columbus, the ‘colonial bioprospecting’ has been inventorying plant, mineral and animal species for profit. To it was added an ‘ethnoprospecting’, i.e. a universal census and classification of human species, which are also thought to have ‘different natures’. By becoming ‘as diverse as nature itself’, humanity is broken down into phenotypes rather than geographical origins, and we slide from a descriptive vision to a normative view, predisposed to hierarchy."

Sylvie Laurent in "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"

#SylvieLaurent #raceMaking #eugenism #capitalism #extractivism #Discovery #Colombus #plantations #America #history #NewWorld #racism #property #ownership #taxonomy #hierarchy #science #epistemology #supremacy

"La conquête des Amériques fut ainsi un chaos primordial qui fit naître l’illusion de l’infinitude des richesses du monde dont l’appropriation maximale ne devait être entravée par aucune contrainte. Deux techniques de production de valeur furent pour cela adoptées : l’esclavage de plantation et l’expropriation létale des indigènes. Telles furent les deux conditions de possibilité du « Nouveau Monde »."

"Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne", Sylvie Laurent

#identités #racialisation #EtatsUnis #campagne #DonaldTrump #Trump #fragilité #racismeSystémique #suprémacisme #suprémacismeBlanc #suprématieBlanche #fragilitéBlanche #racisme #extractivisme #accaparement #appropriation #xénophobie #populisme #trumpisme #Découverte #Rencontre #capitalisme #colonialité #identitaire #définitionDécoloniale #antiracismePolitique

"Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale"

Joseph Massad: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-atrocities-are-nothing-new-only-novelty-scale

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #history #Gaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael

"En un mot comme en cent, le principe de #laïcité s'est substantialisé : il exprime et véhicule une certaine conception du bien, un programme normatif.

"Il se fait métonymie de la République et est, de ce fait, appelé à la rescousse sur une infinité de terrains. La minute de silence au lendemain des attentats de janvier 2015? Laïcité. L'éducation à la sexualité? Laïcité. Le port de signes « religieux » dans l'espace public? Laïcité. Les menus à la cantine? Laïcité. Les dispenses de cours d'éducation physique et sportive? Laïcité. Ad infinitum."

Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)

#laïcitéUnitaire #laïcitéCommunautaire #laïcitéNormative #unitaire #normalisation #normation #normal #espacePublic #école #neutralité #servicesPublics #éducation #éducationNationale #HennetteVauchez #foulard #hijab #voile #bioPolitique #bioPouvoir #islamophobie #racisme #racismeStructurel #racismeSystémique #racialisation #Attentats #cantine #collège #lycée #minuteDeSilence #idéologie #croire #religionDEtat #fragilitéBlanche #fragilité #républicain #républicanisme #principes

"This is a confession. I love daytime TV. I smoke, even though I officially gave up years ago. I’m often late, and usually lie about why. And sometimes I feel good when others feel bad.

"The Japanese have a saying: “The misfortunes of others taste like honey.” […] In Hebrew enjoying other people’s catastrophes is 'simcha la‑ed'."

Excerpts from the #book #Schadenfreude by Tiffany Watt Smith: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606171225/https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/ @psychology @bookstodon

#pity #failures #empathy #envy #emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #grievability #mentalHealth #sadism #bondage #failures #joy #psychology #TiffanyWattSmith #bookStodon #wickedness

A review of Clia Izoard's book: https://archive.is/r3Def#selection-393.0-393.25

"Locally, the process of radicalization of industrial #mining is detailed through the prism of its social ravages. The mine is above all a gigantic uprooting machine (p. 54), which empties spaces by expropriating the last peoples of the plant. In addition, contemporary mining exposes populations to various diseases and poisoning. In the Bou-Azzer mine in Morocco, we extract responsible cobalt for electric cars; miners and local residents suffer from cancers and neurological and cardiovascular diseases.
"The overall scale of mining sector predation in XXIe century is also outlined through the growing production of waste and pollution. The mining sector is the most polluting industry in the world. For example, an industrial copper mine produces 99.6% waste. Stored near mining pits, the waste rocks, gigantic volumes of extracted rock, generate sulfur releases which drain the heavy metals contained in the rocks and make them migrate towards waterways. Factory pipes constantly spew toxic residues which can, depending on the ore processed, consist of cyanide, acids, hydrocarbons, soda, or known poisons such as lead, arsenic, mercury, etc. Finally, zero-carbon mines are pipe dreams because they are all very energy-intensive. The amount needed to extract, crush, process and refine metals represents approximately 8 to 10% of the total energy consumed worldwide, making the mining industry a major culprit in climate change."

#environment #ecology #mining #mines #extraction #extractivism #metals #transition #energyTransition #ecologicalTransition #ecologicalDebt #lithium #cobalt #digital #digitization #smartphone #iPhone #Android #electric #electricTransition #electricCars #industry #criticalTheory #technoCriticism #capitalism #technology #technique #sovereignty #supply #supplyChain #rawMaterials #commodities #development #exploitation #policy #pollution #NIMBY #CéliaIzoard #nickel #copper #book

What if one place was devastated because another was clean?

"On a basic level, exporting raw materials adds less economic value to the country that does it than processing, manufacturing, and reselling those materials, so for every watt of energy, every hectare of land, and every hour of work used to make goods exported from the global North to the South, the South has to generate, use, and work many more units to pay for it."

Laurie Parsons: https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change/impact-of-climate-change @climate

#environment #ecology #mining #mines #extraction #extractivism #metals #transition #energyTransition #ecologicalTransition #ecologicalDebt #lithium #cobalt #digital #digitization #smartphone #iPhone #Android #electric #electricTransition #electricCars #industry #criticalTheory #technoCriticism #capitalism #technology #technique #sovereignty #supply #supplyChain #rawMaterials #commodities #development #exploitation #policy #pollution #NIMBY #emissions #co2emissions #carbon #GHG

[…]

"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."

Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael