I hate starting my sentences with “As a genocide survivor…” but as a genocide survivor, all the hope I had once held that it was just ignorance and it was just the lack of access to information, that allowed the Western world to sit by while we were massacred has evaporated.
I had even held this hope that the Western Lefties who had clung to the idea that Milosevic was just an anti-imperialist, was borne out of ignorance and lack of information. I was so deeply wrong.
It was stupid of me, really, to ever believe that people’s literal lives would matter to those who are accustomed to privilege, to comfort, and to safety. It was silly of me to think genocide would matter if it happened again.
It has been 10 months of the genocide in Palestine. 10 months and nothing has been done. Even worse, even more horrifying somehow the conversation has turned about American comfort and safety. While a literal genocide is televised.
The conventions at hand are not just counterproductive, they’re utterly cruel in a way. “You want me to place my safety and comfort on the line for Palestinians”…yes, yes I do because they are the ones being massacred and bombed on a daily basis.
& those of us who live in the countries that are supporting those acts of genocide, have an absolute responsibility and an obligation to ensure that it stops, by any means necessary. Even at the expense of our own comfort and safety.
If you do not think it is worth putting your comfort on the line for genocide, then when is it worth it? If you don’t think this is the time for every single person to be pressuring the Dem candidate on Palestine then when tf do you think it will be?
It is nothing but cruel to say that because you live in the USA, your life, your safety, and your comfort should matter more than that of the Palestinians or the Sudanese or any other person for that matter. You’re not any special for being born in the imperial core.
But you do hold a responsibility, as a human fucking being, to do everything that is in your power & then some, to try and stop this genocide and prevent more bloodshed and loss. You have a responsibility to pressure your leaders & potential leaders, not to make excuses for them.
Why should your comfort and safety matter more than the Palestinian’s literal lives? Please explain that to me. Unless you’re not a radical at all. Unless you’re not an activist at all. Unless you are simply cosplaying a revolutionary for fun online.
This is a conversation that would never happen in truly radical space. In true social justice and activist spaces, there would never be a conversation that would dare to compare comfort and safety between marginalised people as who deserves it more. What a disappointment.
What an utter disappointment and disgrace many of you have turned out to be. How disappointing it is to hear that genocide is not your red line. To hear that genocide should take a backseat to an election. That those being massacred should wait their turn.
My people waited…and all we got were more massacres and a land littered with bodies and remains of our loved ones that we continue searching for, 30 years later.
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