Status Updates From 疾病的隐喻

to describe a phenomenon as a cancer is not merely rhetorical but it is an incitement to violence, an implicit justification for genocide bc it transforms political opponents into alien,,, fatal diseases that must be excised from the body politic

the parallel is damning. the war on cancer, like the vietnam war, is a colonial war. a war fought against an enemy that is inside the territory,,,,,

i keep taking breaks form reading this but it is so interesting reading out of date ideas like this. she says ‘cancer-phobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment,’ i feel like you never see that in environmental activism these days