On October 25th, 2023, writer Omar El Akkad wrote a tweet about Palestine: “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” The narratives about victims and victimizers were already so disproportionate, and the institutional silences so loud given the brutality we were plainly seeing, that El Akkad’s words immediately clicked.
The settler colonial brainwashing institutions like Harvard build monuments to exceptionalism’s builders who maintain dehumanization for forever extraction against liberation.
The settler colonial brainwashing institutions like Harvard build monuments to exceptionalism’s builders who maintain dehumanization for forever extraction against liberation.