It’s not even enough to say that the US is merely complicit in this genocide, Israel wouldn’t even be able to do a genocide without US backing. The US is an equal partner and collaborator in this genocide. It’s those of us who live in the US who are complicit in the US’s genocide. It’s like Bushnell’s last post:
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”
The US uses their convoluted visa process to blackmail foreigners into submission, dangles the American dream in front of immigrants, keeps Americans in debt, and filters all wealth (and thus, in a capitalist society, power) to the 1%.
This has always been a class problem. The people who are working to build a better America are not the people who make the decisions and they are not the people who have actual influence on America. Treating the working class as an unexceptional, unwanted “element of society” rather than it’s backbone was always going to have this effect.
Each of us in the imperial core chooses to live and work every day. We directly contribute to this genocide with our labor and tax money and consumption. We have the power to stop this, we are not powerless. We are all complicit.
Bushnell, acting alone, got a member of the State Department to publicly resign. An ordinary person without wealth and power had a concrete influence on the US government, all alone and with nothing but the willingness to die for what they believed in.
I think Bushnell killed the wrong person, but I can recognize they are my moral superior. I can barely hope to be half as important.
What would I do if my country was committing genocide?
It’s not even enough to say that the US is merely complicit in this genocide, Israel wouldn’t even be able to do a genocide without US backing. The US is an equal partner and collaborator in this genocide. It’s those of us who live in the US who are complicit in the US’s genocide. It’s like Bushnell’s last post:
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?”
The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now."
The US uses their convoluted visa process to blackmail foreigners into submission, dangles the American dream in front of immigrants, keeps Americans in debt, and filters all wealth (and thus, in a capitalist society, power) to the 1%.
This has always been a class problem. The people who are working to build a better America are not the people who make the decisions and they are not the people who have actual influence on America. Treating the working class as an unexceptional, unwanted “element of society” rather than it’s backbone was always going to have this effect.
Each of us in the imperial core chooses to live and work every day. We directly contribute to this genocide with our labor and tax money and consumption. We have the power to stop this, we are not powerless. We are all complicit.
Bushnell, acting alone, got a member of the State Department to publicly resign. An ordinary person without wealth and power had a concrete influence on the US government, all alone and with nothing but the willingness to die for what they believed in.
I think Bushnell killed the wrong person, but I can recognize they are my moral superior. I can barely hope to be half as important.
What would I do if my country was committing genocide?
Post, I guess.