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Yes yes yes - thanks for this. One quote (via Greenwald from
another writer, Atrios) --<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">"I do wish more people who manage to fully
comprehend the broad trauma a mass shooting can have on our
country would consider the consequences of a decade of war."<br>
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We have to make a sign from this.<br>
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... and, from Greenwald --<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">[...] But there are nonetheless two key
issues highlighted by the intense grief for the Newtown victims
compared to the utter indifference to the victims of Obama's
militarism. The first is that it underscores how potent and
effective the last decade's anti-Muslim dehumanization campaign
has been.<br>
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Every war - particularly protracted ones like the "War on Terror"
- demands sustained dehumanization campaigns against the targets
of the violence. Few populations will tolerate continuous killings
if they have to confront the humanity of those who are being
killed. The humanity of the victims must be hidden and denied.
[...]<br>
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But this dehumanization is about more than simply hiding and thus
denying the personhood of Muslim victims of US violence. It is
worse than that: it is based on the implicit, and sometimes
overtly stated, premise that Muslims generally, even those guilty
of nothing, deserve what the US does to them, or are at least
presumed to carry blame. [...]<br>
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[...]<br>
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There's one other issue highlighted by this disparate reaction:
the question of agency and culpability. It's easy to express rage
over the Newtown shooting because so few of us bear any
responsibility for it and - although we can take steps to minimize
the impact and make similar attacks less likely - there is
ultimately little we can do to stop psychotic individuals from
snapping. Fury is easy because it's easy to tell ourselves that
the perpetrator - the shooter - has so little to do with us and
our actions.<br>
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Exactly the opposite is true for the violence that continuously
kills children and other innocent people in the Muslim world. Many
of us empowered and cheer for the person responsible for that. US
citizens pay for it, enable it, and now under Obama, most at the
very least acquiesce to it if not support it.</blockquote>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/19/12 11:18 PM, Brussel Morton K.
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:D7128783-C4B6-4E59-989A-9126EC55D051@comcast.net"
type="cite">Glen Greenwald, as usual, has a penetrating,
coruscating, commentary comparing the Newtown tragedy, and
reactions to it, to what "we" have been doing around the world to
children, mostly off color.
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/19-10">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/19-10</a></div>
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