Thread by @monaeltahawy

Fuck the British royal family--racists descendants of racists.

https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1501637351273074690

The whiteness fueling who deserves to be saved in #UcraniaRussia war has compounded the whiteness of who deserves to be saved in the pandemic: white people matter the most.

And not even all white people, equally. As Bosnian Muslims have pointed out–they were the “wrong” kind of white Europeans.

All these white Europeans saying war happens "over there" not "here" clearly ignore Bosnia. Diana, Williams' mother visited Bosnia feministgiant.com/p/essay-life-l…

Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces systematically murdered 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men & boys and ethnically cleansed 30k, remains the only massacre on European soil since WWII to be ruled a genocide. it was the worst crime of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/759395239303884805?s=20&t=Of8ELaKf1Milo_vSoQ5mzg

Media coverage and the political statements around the #UkraineRussiawar serve as reminders that sympathy and support during war are never equal: they depend on how you look and how you pray, and they are undergirded by white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and Islamophobia

From the anti-Blackness obvious in who could leave Ukraine to the implicit and sometimes explicit confirmation that Ukrainian refugees were welcome in various parts of Europe because they were white and not Muslim. feministgiant.com/p/essay-life-l…

Fuck Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. Fuck war. None of what I am writing aims to dismiss the suffering and death of the people of Ukraine, at the receiving end of a punishing bombardment 1/2 #UkraineRussiaWar

2/2 None of what I am writing aims to dismiss the suffering of the people of Russia, whose lives are wrecked by an autocrat whose havoc has wrecked many in the region from which I hail. I side with the people. #UkraineRussiaWar

I'm asking instead: whose lives matter? Ask Syrians, Palestinians, Yemenis, so many others whose countries have been wrecked by war & occupation caused by, supported, or justified by very powers who now tell us they're supporting democracy vs autocracy by siding w/Ukraine.

Fuck imperialism and occupations of every flavour—Russian, US, Chinese, Israeli, and of that British family or racists descendants of racists, any other I’ve left out. And fuck invaders of every flavour.

Fuck war.

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#UkraineRussianWar

I rant, regularly, here.

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