@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.
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Copy of tweet here: Such platitudes, a psychotic derivative of nationalist exceptionalism, aren't they? A Balkanization of psychogeography, delineated by the basic delusion that morality and reality, interdependence and consequence, somehow disassociate at dividing lines drawn on a map of the world.
@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.