It feels scary publicly saying "I am willing to burn every single relationship i have in support of the Palestinian people who are being ethnically cleansed by the Israeli government with the full support of my own."
But it feels scarier knowing that if I dont, I would be betraying myself. Who would I be if I stayed silent, id be a smart businessman. On track to have everything but my soul. Perfectly complicit.
But fuck me and my feelings, typing impotently on social media is the least I can do. The bottom of the barrel least i can do, as peoples lives are destroyed through my complicity with a system that has decided the comfort of those in my country is more important than the lives of those living in others. The rational part of me says "you arent doing anything, none of this is about you, so shut up" but it still feels wrong. And here this little blurb exists because of that inescapable feeling.
Democrats and Republicans unanimously support the genocide of brown people in the effort to maintain western hegemony, nothing has changed in 300 years or 3000 years, just the tools with which we use to control and dominate.
Its hard to push away the feeling that so much of american domestic policy is engineered to deflect and distract from the violence of its foreign one.
It feels like its all connected.
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