Lucia’s Reviews > Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal > Status Update

"Estoy harto de la falsa equivalencia entre la “violencia” semántica y la violencia sistémica: solo una de las partes en este “conflicto” participa activamente en el intento intencional y sistemático de erradicar a toda una población."

We are implored to be peaceful (or submissive) and forbearing, and we are tolerated when we are. We are meek and we shall inherit no earth. What we are not allowed is the future: we cannot be ambitious or cunning; we cannot aspire to sovereignty or revenge. We are robbed of the right to complexity, to contradictory feelings, the right to “contain multitudes.”

"Humanization diverts critical scrutiny away from the colonizer and onto the colonized, obscuring the inherent injustice of colonialism, thus shielding the colonial project. In misplacing their focus, advocates (or lawyers or journalists, etc.) insinuate that the oppressed must demonstrate their worthiness of liberty and dignity, first and foremost."

"The globe grieves Israeli loss without qualifiers and morphs that grief into fuel for genocide" seguro voy a tardar muchísimo leyendo este libro, fuerte pero necesario