@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.
@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.
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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.