Status Updates From Eines Tages werden alle imm...

It’s giving Ta-Nehisi Coates/James Baldwin level of story telling 🤭

book note #1: the genocide in gaza is one of, if not the most, documented genocides in our modern world and yet it's the one where people still debate it's legitimacy

Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely
because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist’s every action is necessarily
one of self-defense.

Useless fear for some, the justification for the biggest civilian killings of the 21st century for others. As a political science student just… wow

But terrorism
requires a distance between state and perpetrator wide enough to fit a different
kind of fear. The kind of fear that justifies the creation of entirely new laws, new
modes of detention, new apparatuses of surveillance, anything, anything at all.

I can no more push my fear upward into another echelon of privilege than
those above me can help but let theirs fall, with terrible force, onto the lives of
those below.