it is not “empowering” or “inspiring.” it is pro-war, us versus them, american imperialist dogshit with some selective feminism tacked on. wonder woman (2017) is the reason that war criminal idf propagandist gal gadot has such a big following. why people in the us even listen to her in the first place.
its easy to imagine now, because of course she signed up for a film where her character can kill enemy soldiers, humiliate their women and get celebrated for it.
Not Israel exposing itself 💀 they know they are in the wrong since they admit themselves that it’s hard to win on the palestine-israel conflict. It’s not even a conflict because it’s very one sided.
on the fourth slide of this post, there is a list of canadian representatives and their contact information. feel free to refer to the phone/email script a few posts down my blog and keep reaching out to demand an immediate ceasefire.
UPDATED PHONE SCRIPT TO CONTACT CANADIAN REPS FOR CEASEFIRE IN PALESTINE:
“Hello [Contact Name],
My name is [xxxx] and I am a deeply concerned resident of [city or riding]. I am calling on you to demand that you call for a permanent ceasefire, an end to the siege on Gaza to allow to immediate medical aid, and an end to all material and diplomatic support of Israel's war crimes, genocide and colonization of Palestinian land.
The civilian death toll is now over 17,000 (*to my knowledge*) due to indiscriminate bombing, the mass arrest and detention of Palestinians, and countless other violations of international law like collective punishment, withholding access to food and electricity and the use of toxic white phosphorus. This has been ongoing nonstop for over 60 days now. This is not a war, it is genocide which is currently being funded by our tax dollars.
During the 5 day ceasefire, we saw a majority of the released hostages from Palestine were children who had been imprisoned for years for minor offenses like throwing rocks. We also saw Israel shooting civilians still, and kidnapping people in the West Bank.
Now the bombing has resumed, and again, [country] stays silent and complicit.
It is high past time for [country] to stand against genocide. You, and all of Parliament, must call for an end to the root causes of all this violence: the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and the Israeli government's apartheid regime.
I will not be voting for you or [your party] in the next election based on your lack of response on this emergency unless you are willing to stand against apartheid and call for a ceasefire.
Thank you for your time and we will all be watching to see if [country] will stand against apartheid and genocide.
people on twitter are being real weird about chance.. that man is dead so idk what the point in some of those posts are now. if anything i’m really keeping his family in my thoughts. it’s crazy seeing anyone my age go out like that and i’ve lost family the same way. i’ve lost friends from shootings and more. it’s okay for people to feel shock about something like this. you aren’t better than anyone for saying you don’t care because he was *insert -phobic* when you probably have family who disregard your own identity for the same reason but you’d still cry if some shit like this happened to them because of the little good you experienced with them even if the bad outweighed it
Part of the reason why ethnostates should not exist (aside from the genocides, which should be obvious to everyone) is that they politically compromise people outside of that state.
Politics, remember, is just a word that means 'decision-making and the means of decision-making for and about groups of people.'
'Politically compromising people remotely' does not sound like as much of a visceral, horrifying emergency as the ethnostate's direct violence, but it is a component to that violence. It perpetuates that direct violence and multiplies it far beyond what otherwise a government could 'influence.' It increases the longevity of that violence and attempts to style its own legitimacy at the same time. Basically, an ethnostate can use 'itself' to mess with the decision-making capability of the entire world, in ways that can't only be explained by a state's power structure or funding alone.
When an ethnostate exists, it is projected involuntarily on the bodies of whatever group it 'favors'-- even people only tangentially connected, like through marriage, or who belong to a subgroup not originally considered, or those who are distant through diaspora. And an ethnostate doesn't truly favor that group, it favors the decision-making power it can reap from that group, regardless of anyone's actual preferences:
An ethnostate makes choices long-distance about and even for those bodies.
It can claim 'threats' to it are also threats to those other bodies, and they do not have to be actual threats.
It can claim to be benefiting those bodies while doing nothing for them at all.
It can force itself into culture and histories it has no actual connection to.
It can 'claim' people who have no investment in its existence and have no political influence within it, use them to weight its goals.
It can make a fake "us" that people around the world never consented to, and if it claims you, it might do anything 'in your name.'
This may all sound abstract. But the consequences are real, and they are dangerous. They are also local, far away from the ethnostate itself. They can get into your family's history and memories, they can get into your social relationships and spaces. They can get into institutions that will decide your future.
Healthy communities are diverse and must reckon with the paradox of tolerance. They represent the will and agency of all those who actually live there, and do not exist to engineer that agency, or their own population. And they do not claim to represent the will and agency of those who don't live there. An ethnostate is dangerous not only for its direct actions, but its implicit statement that all people of some vaguely-defined status are actually part of its state, worldwide-- and their existence alone validates its goals.