Seethe with Anger and Rage
The Palestinians are paying the ultimate price for our awakening to reality.
The utter evil we witness in Palestine - the unbelievable, naked cruelty inflicted upon an innocent people - may seem unprecedented, almost unique. But what we see is merely what Europeans have perpetrated for roughly 500 years against peoples worldwide: Malaysians, Maoris, First Nations, Algerians, Indonesians, Congolese, Indians, Chinese, Iraqis, South Africans, Guatemalans, Kenyans, and on and on and on.
The difference now is that we can finally bear witness. See it with our own eyes, not through curated school textbooks, but the laid bare reality of white supremacist European settler-colonialism. This is it.
Professor Gerald Horne deems the 16th century the dawning of the "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism", and rightly so. This European colonial culture, rooted more in the Viking marauders' barbarity than Semitic Christianity's teachings, has plunged the world into indescribable brutality. For too long, textbooks, propaganda films, fraudulent science, and algorithmic biases succeeded in obfuscating the truth.
But the mask has slipped. For 14 months, Western leaders unabashedly endorsed pure, unadulterated savagery - rape, torture, mass killings, starvation, the erasure of infrastructure, ecocide, theft - revealing how easily the European ruling classes revel in violence and depravity against the innocent without a shred of discomfort or guilt.
The Rage
An all-consuming rage seethes within me as I realize the prolonged abuse I endured as a Western citizen. Abused by teachers withholding truth. Abused by state lies fed to me since birth. Abused by the entire bloody system indoctrinating empty values of "human rights", "democracy", "freedom", and "equality" - all the while my genocide-endorsing government hypocritically conscripted us each year into solemn rituals memorializing World War II's "liberation."
These vile, racist, genocidal liars never cared - they couldn't care less about those deemed "non-white", "non-Christian", "non-European".
As someone of mixed heritage raised in an entirely white family and environment, I always sensed the racism - the kind you hear and feel among family and friends who trust you, those you're part of the ingroup with. That underlying current, the normalcy of degrading jokes, the automatic disregard for different phenotypes, the condescending views of other cultures. Yet when I voiced unease, I was dismissed, called paranoid. But I felt it - the deep-seated racist rot pulsing through the very heartbeat of European culture.
Self-Worth By Degrading Others
They thrive on it - European cultures appear to derive existential sustenance, their very sense of self-worth, through the degradation and dehumanization of the "Other." Their fragile positive self-perception endures only by conjuring a demonic, racially-othered embodiment of evil to be subjugated and conquered. An imagined dark monster by which to contrast their idealized, superior but fake self-image.
This pathological need births the endless charade of "greatest threats to mankind" that the Euro-American ruling class keeps manufacturing - Muslims, Chinese, Black people, Indigenous populations... Projected shades of darkness onto which to cast their idealized self-image as a righteous, superior force of light.
Yet they remain blind to the blatant irony - that this very culture rendered European colonizers the embodiment of evil themselves. So utterly dehumanized that they could perpetrate the genocidal slaughter of hundreds of millions of human beings across just half a millennium.
But no more. The mask is off. We see European cultures' rotten core laid bare, their true face unobscured. No high ranked universities, self-aggrandizing Nobel Prizes, nor Hollywood spectacles of white damsels and saviors can conceal this revelation. The truth about European cultures is finally being exposed for all to see. And the Palestinian people are paying the ultimate price for this harsh awakening to reality.
- Karim
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