For decades, we were told "Never Again" to genocide and mass atrocities. The Holocaust. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur. We were taught to spot the warning signs--dehumanizing rhetoric, violence, forced depopulation, and the destruction of culture. We were told to speak out and act.
Watching the silence, censorship, racism, and hypocrisies on to the assault, starvation, and depopulation of Palestinians in Gaza is revealing. Too many consume history as stimulating entertainment, neatly packaged for movies, classes, and museums. Not as something to act on.
@KarenAttiah Wait, didn't you celebrate the Oct 7 massacres?
@KarenAttiah No. Never Again is from a Jewish poem and popularized by Holocaust survivors. It meant that never again would we allow people like you to harm us.
@KarenAttiah When citizens of color—Black folks (largely led by Black women)—point out the warning signs, we’re accused of overacting, race baiting, being uninformed, not thinking globally or incapable of understanding how “complicated” it is. We’re then forced into self preservation mode.