Katie McClellan’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update

Ugh the paradox of how the US needs to perpetuate violence in order to play the savior or claim their violent “preemptive” strike was called for when rly we’re the terrorists

“And it may seem now like it’s someone else’s children, but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one’s opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one’s own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.”

“As always, the dead will be made to pay the moral debt born of their killing.”

Do you remember how hard the west fought to convince us in the beginning (2023 beginning not og beginning) that Palestinians were terrorists, less than human, disgusting, live in squalor and don’t deserve more (this is rooted in Israeli propaganda that’s lasted over a century)? All this to justify mass murder.

“In the modern, well-dressed definition, adhered to in one form or another at almost every major newspaper, the journalist cannot be an activist, must remain allegiant to a self-erasing neutrality. Yet journalism at its core is one of the most activist endeavors there is. A reporter is supposed to agitate against power, against privilege. … A reporter is supposed to agitate against silence.” (This my thing!)

Beautiful writing…

“It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that no existence is violated?”