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@omarsuleiman504 @washingtonpost 1/ Genocide scholars will recognize this clear xenophobic incitement crosses a scientifically-acknowledged threshold into #WaPo sanctioned advocacy for ethnic cleansing - a "public incitement to commit genocide", as an ICTR verdict described the crime of Rwandan media figures.

Copy of tweet here: The conflict in #Ukraine makes clear we are seeing the weaponizing of attention itself. This has long been true. Somehow this time the fact of it is clearer. Yup, vast resources of immense, competing, dominative powers of war and profit, actively shaping universal attention span in the pathological image of division and outrage. Media ecology, fixed into furrows of death, applied as a diabolical claim upon the private soul.
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Copy of tweet here: The conflict in #Ukraine makes clear we are seeing the weaponizing of attention itself. This has long been true. Somehow this time the fact of it is clearer. Yup, vast resources of immense, competing, dominative powers of war and profit, actively shaping universal attention span in the pathological image of division and outrage. Media ecology, fixed into furrows of death, applied as a diabolical claim upon the private soul.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 May 2020

1/2 Contemporary genocide scholarship, current American trends and the messianic reality of the Eschatological Turn. Part One: a perspective spoken from the steps of #OccupyICE, Portland, OR, July 1, 2018. youtu.be/C5TX3dKM1L8

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @JoohnChoe @JYSexton Why is stochastic terrorism implicitly a domestic phenomenon? Studies confirm that mainstream media outlets and, of late, social media platforms, fuel genocides. What then, when a modern politico-media complex fuses within state borders to significantly "other" a culture or race.Quoted by@JoohnChoe @JYSexton Why is stochastic terrorism implicitly a domestic phenomenon? Studies confirm that mainstream media outlets and, of late, social media platforms, fuel genocides. What then, when a modern politico-media complex fuses within state borders to significantly "other" a culture or race.Quoted by@LemkinInstitute @GenocideStudies Surreal. Here we are, weeks into the Gaza crisis and not yet the barest whisper of recognition @GenocideStudies relating to genocide scholarship in the midst of genocide. What, I wonder, is the point? On behalf of the children, then, an offering. Thank you for your consideration.Quoted by@medialens Noting his use of the present tense, here - attesting to Western media's *co-existing* narrative hegemony over the unfolding massacre, and its deliberate disregard, also in real time, of countless genocide scholars insisting that Israeli military action amounts to genocide, now.