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  1. "The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members."

    Nahomi Linda Esquivel wrote: dissentmagazine.org/online_art

    #InstitutionsDeceive #abuse #sexualViolence #UFW #unions

  2. "The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members."

    Nahomi Linda Esquivel wrote: dissentmagazine.org/online_art

    #InstitutionsDeceive #abuse #sexualViolence #UFW #unions

  3. "The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members."

    Nahomi Linda Esquivel wrote: dissentmagazine.org/online_art

    #InstitutionsDeceive #abuse #sexualViolence #UFW #unions

  4. "The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members."

    Nahomi Linda Esquivel wrote: dissentmagazine.org/online_art

    #InstitutionsDeceive #abuse #sexualViolence #UFW #unions

  5. "The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members."

    Nahomi Linda Esquivel wrote: dissentmagazine.org/online_art

  6. Solutions on offer are false and distracting. A prime motive is to augment piloting by financial institutions.

    A huge problem of institutional "solutions" is that they tend to delay the systemic changes needed to adapt to the climate catstrophe. "This mini-series will give you the evidence, talking points, and tools to push back and promote genuine, lasting solutions to the debt and climate crises:" eurodad.org/false_and_distract

    #transition #renewables #energyTransition #institutionsDeceive #COP30

  7. Solutions on offer are false and distracting. A prime motive is to augment piloting by financial institutions.

    A huge problem of institutional "solutions" is that they tend to delay the systemic changes needed to adapt to the climate catstrophe. "This mini-series will give you the evidence, talking points, and tools to push back and promote genuine, lasting solutions to the debt and climate crises:" eurodad.org/false_and_distract

    #transition #renewables #energyTransition #institutionsDeceive #COP30

  8. Solutions on offer are false and distracting. A prime motive is to augment piloting by financial institutions.

    A huge problem of institutional "solutions" is that they tend to delay the systemic changes needed to adapt to the climate catstrophe. "This mini-series will give you the evidence, talking points, and tools to push back and promote genuine, lasting solutions to the debt and climate crises:" eurodad.org/false_and_distract

    #transition #renewables #energyTransition #institutionsDeceive #COP30

  9. Solutions on offer are false and distracting. A prime motive is to augment piloting by financial institutions.

    A huge problem of institutional "solutions" is that they tend to delay the systemic changes needed to adapt to the climate catstrophe. "This mini-series will give you the evidence, talking points, and tools to push back and promote genuine, lasting solutions to the debt and climate crises:" eurodad.org/false_and_distract

    #transition #renewables #energyTransition #institutionsDeceive #COP30

  10. ‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

    And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
    ‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

    (Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

    #educate #obey #obedience #beliefs #school #education #imagination #training #institutionsDeceive #learn #learning #teaching #teach #adultDomination #teachers #Deleuze #Guattari #language #semiotics #domination

  11. ‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

    And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
    ‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

    (Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

    #educate #obey #obedience #beliefs #school #education #imagination #training #institutionsDeceive #learn #learning #teaching #teach #adultDomination #teachers #Deleuze #Guattari #language #semiotics #domination

  12. ‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

    And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
    ‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

    (Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

    #educate #obey #obedience #beliefs #school #education #imagination #training #institutionsDeceive #learn #learning #teaching #teach #adultDomination #teachers #Deleuze #Guattari #language #semiotics #domination

  13. ‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

    And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
    ‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

    (Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

    #educate #obey #obedience #beliefs #school #education #imagination #training #institutionsDeceive #learn #learning #teaching #teach #adultDomination #teachers #Deleuze #Guattari #language #semiotics #domination

  14. ‘The schoolteacher does not inquire when she questions a pupil, any more than she informs when she teaches a rule of grammar or arithmetic. She “teaches”, she gives orders, she commands.’

    And, we might add, she assigns, as we read further on:
    ‘The apparatus of compulsory education does not communicate information, but imposes semiotic coordinates on the child with all the dual bases of grammar (masculine-feminine, singular-plural, subject of the statement-subject of the utterance, etc.). The elementary unit of language is the instruction.’

    (Deleuze, Guattari, 1980, pp. 95-96)

  15. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

    #teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

  16. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

    #teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

  17. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

    #teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

  18. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

    #teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

  19. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

  20. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

  21. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

  22. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

  23. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

  24. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

  25. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  26. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  27. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

  28. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  29. 'Three syntactic patterns appear consistently:
    • Passive constructions, such as “Data shall be retained,” which avoid naming the actor.
    • Nominalizations, such as “submission,” which replace verbs like “submit” to obscure who acts.
    • Instruction templates without subjects, such as “Confirm identity before approval,” which issue commands without specifying any agent.

    'Each of these forms is grammatically acceptable and often institutionally adopted. What unites them is that they structurally remove the subject, the speaker, and the agent.

    'Why This Has Consequences

    'Where no one is named, no one is held accountable.
    […]
    'Formality, once a guarantee of procedure, becomes a mask for the absence of responsibility.

    'Documents continue to function. Authority continues to be exercised. Yet no one signs, and no one speaks.'

    agustinvstartari.com/post/who- by @agustinstartari

    #responsibility #accountability #ethics #authority #technique #risks #assessment #algorithms #technocriticism #judicialBias #institutionsDeceive #ethics #justice #law #publicLaw #bias #justiceSystem #judiciary #genAI #generativeAI

  30. "Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
    by Scott Campbell @susurros

    “Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
    by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

    (continued) 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

  31. "Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
    by Scott Campbell @susurros

    “Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
    by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

    (continued) 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

  32. "Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
    by Scott Campbell @susurros

    “Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
    by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

    (continued) 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

  33. "Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
    by Scott Campbell @susurros

    “Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
    by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

    (continued) 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

  34. "Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
    by Scott Campbell @susurros

    “Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
    by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

    (continued) 🧶

  35. "Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
    by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc

    cited in fallingintoincandescence.com/2

    @palestine 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

  36. "Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
    by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc

    cited in fallingintoincandescence.com/2

    @palestine 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

  37. "Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
    by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc

    cited in fallingintoincandescence.com/2

    @palestine 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

  38. "Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
    by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc

    cited in fallingintoincandescence.com/2

    @palestine 🧶

    #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

  39. "Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
    by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc

    cited in fallingintoincandescence.com/2

    @palestine 🧶

  40. ‘It is in each individual's conscience that society stakes its destiny. The most admirable institutions are mere relics if the persons who are supposed to preserve them do not respect their spirit and are incapable of adapting them to circumstances .’

    Corine Pelluchon in her book ‘Éthique de la considération’, 2018

    #entitlement #institutionsDeceive #institutions #readFriday #book #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #socialdivide #democracy #ecofeminism #CorinePelluchon #Pelluchon #consideration #ethics #institutionsDeceive