I appreciate the nuanced conversation this brings up. As an Arab American I have been struggling with this myself. At the risk of contradicting the very point of the video, I do have some thoughts to bring up… because in some ways, I do appreciate the call-outs on psychos like Cory Booker. From my perspective, it feels like Cory Booker’s superficial dissent is being given more weight than his structural violence. It is painful that, after 2 years of an accelerated genocide, we still have to have conversations about different facts carrying different weights.
So when I see creators call out this disconnect, I appreciate it. The Arab American voice is so small. It gets easily wiped out. But, like you said, the communication style matters because it triggers trauma. And the conversation is now focused on that.
I take all of this as growing pains. We are all coming into a realization that all our systems are designed against us. We are having to recenter our individual, communal lived experiences and morally weigh them against a new center, all under pressure.
One additional thing I want to comment on: applauding Cory Booker for his stamina and ability to do his speech on the senate floor and the fact that he is a genocide-enabling AIPAC sellout are not conflicting things. It is distortion by design to manage narrative. He is being applauded and amplified because he was ALLOWED to do his speech. If he was a real threat, he would have been censured and censored. The real conflict is between people’s yearning for hope and the quiet knowledge that the solution available is false.
Again, sorry if any of this came off dismissive or over-talking. I’m open to feedback and discussion. Thank you for all the work you do. ❤️
This is such an incredible comment and I love it so much for so many reasons. This is 100% growing pains. These identity fractures were manufactured to keep us separated, our trauma triggers responses that do not allow us to mend and come together under the banner of lived experiences. It keeps us from understanding the systems and the people invested in these systems that are behind our mutual suffering. They push on these fractures every time so we do not get to he place of understanding. But that place of understanding is written in the stars. We just all need to hold the space to heal and grow, we need to hold the space to be offended and be triggered but talk and work through it. Cory Booker is a tool of white supremacy and he has allowed himself to be used that way and I truly believe my people need to do like our ancestors did during the Haitian Revolution.....and let those people go. Correct the standard of what it means to have this identity and if it is not centered in the eternal global struggle, than we let you go and revoke the ability for them to identify with us. All marginalized people need to do this!...hold space for being offended and offending others so we can build trust and help each other. LOVE LOVE LOVE this comment!!
I appreciate the nuanced conversation this brings up. As an Arab American I have been struggling with this myself. At the risk of contradicting the very point of the video, I do have some thoughts to bring up… because in some ways, I do appreciate the call-outs on psychos like Cory Booker. From my perspective, it feels like Cory Booker’s superficial dissent is being given more weight than his structural violence. It is painful that, after 2 years of an accelerated genocide, we still have to have conversations about different facts carrying different weights.
So when I see creators call out this disconnect, I appreciate it. The Arab American voice is so small. It gets easily wiped out. But, like you said, the communication style matters because it triggers trauma. And the conversation is now focused on that.
I take all of this as growing pains. We are all coming into a realization that all our systems are designed against us. We are having to recenter our individual, communal lived experiences and morally weigh them against a new center, all under pressure.
One additional thing I want to comment on: applauding Cory Booker for his stamina and ability to do his speech on the senate floor and the fact that he is a genocide-enabling AIPAC sellout are not conflicting things. It is distortion by design to manage narrative. He is being applauded and amplified because he was ALLOWED to do his speech. If he was a real threat, he would have been censured and censored. The real conflict is between people’s yearning for hope and the quiet knowledge that the solution available is false.
Again, sorry if any of this came off dismissive or over-talking. I’m open to feedback and discussion. Thank you for all the work you do. ❤️
This is such an incredible comment and I love it so much for so many reasons. This is 100% growing pains. These identity fractures were manufactured to keep us separated, our trauma triggers responses that do not allow us to mend and come together under the banner of lived experiences. It keeps us from understanding the systems and the people invested in these systems that are behind our mutual suffering. They push on these fractures every time so we do not get to he place of understanding. But that place of understanding is written in the stars. We just all need to hold the space to heal and grow, we need to hold the space to be offended and be triggered but talk and work through it. Cory Booker is a tool of white supremacy and he has allowed himself to be used that way and I truly believe my people need to do like our ancestors did during the Haitian Revolution.....and let those people go. Correct the standard of what it means to have this identity and if it is not centered in the eternal global struggle, than we let you go and revoke the ability for them to identify with us. All marginalized people need to do this!...hold space for being offended and offending others so we can build trust and help each other. LOVE LOVE LOVE this comment!!